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 adminis….

What a man does in his own house cannot concern the nation..

The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change..

It certainly must have been a relief for women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political..

the proper place to eat lobster ... is in a lobster shack as close to the sea as possible. There is no menu card because there is nothing else to eat….

No writer, I believe, should attempt a novel before he is thirty, and not then unless he has been hopelessly and helplessly involved in life. For the….

Yet there were times when he did love her with all the kindness she demanded, and how was she to know what were those times? Alone she raged against ….

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

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness..

What seems new is only new to us..

For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom..

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

If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies..

The typhoon came out of the sea first as a deep hollow roar. ... I was surrounded by the madness, the unreason, of uncontrolled, undisciplined energy….

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

God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness . He is not in the general. He is in the particular..

Integrity is honesty carried through the fibres of the being and the whole mind, into thought as well as action so that the person is complete in hon….

Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'.

The head raised too high even in good will be struck off too soon..

Religion was their meat and their excitement, their mental food and their emotional pleasure..

an artist is always seeking revelation..