A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Be born anywhere, little embyro novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of salvation. Go out and be...

Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.

Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think...

I am mentally bifocal.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible – and achieve it, generation after generation.

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its...

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband’s bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of...

Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught...

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of...

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

Believing in gods always causes confusion.

The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word-excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

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...

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

One faces the future with one’s past.

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God’s truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.To him…a touch is a blow,a sound is a noise,a misfortune is a tragedy,a joy is an...

All things are possible until they are proved impossible – and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage...

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself. ”

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won’t let them into our country.

Love dies only when growth stops.