Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love?
To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
Hunger makes a thief of any man.
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.
There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream – whatever that dream might be.
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Iowans know themselves and what they are doing. They are doing well.
No daughter is ever her mother’s darling. That spot is always reserved for the son.
The best government in the world, the best religion, the best traditions of any people, depend upon the good or evil of the men and women who administer them.
There is, of course, a difference between what one seizes and what one really possesses.
The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority.
Religion was their meat and their excitement, their mental food and their emotional pleasure.