All I want is compliance with my wishes, after reasonable discussion.

Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts .... We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box.

A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.

The world, nature, human beings, do not move like machines. The edges are never clear-cut, but always frayed. Nature never draws a line without smudging it.

There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

The most beautiful voice in the world is that of an educated Southern woman.