Folks think that children will make up for all they ought to do and haven't done.

Prejudice is a seeping, dark stain, I think, more difficult to fight than hatred-which is powerful and violent and somehow more honest.

You can never tell what will happen to a theory before you can get around to using it.

Real separation, to me, is the death of love. Any other - parting - well, it just isn't real.

Any fear is always worse than the thing itself.

if some folks have buried their racial prejudices, the chances are that they've got the graves marked and will have no trouble disinterring their pet hates.

Perhaps for the purposes of war racial differences had been buried, but certainly in no deep grave.

At first trouble is a new experience - gradually you learn that - that it isn't fatal.

To want a gift and not receive it, that is a life of torture. To have a gift and lose it--that is eternal hell.

It seems a universal rule in this world that people will always look for victims and scapegoats, does it not? Especially at times of difficulty and tension.

Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism.

We tend to have tremendous faith in the power of our disasters and far too little faith in the power of miracles.

Flatterers and men of learning do not accord well with each other.

I was very much disappointed in the Atlantic Ocean.

Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.

Free of who I was, free of presence, free of dangerous fear, hope, free of mountainous wanting.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own 4-H Club - the 'hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.'

I believe we are all connected to other people. I am connected to people who are suffering. We all are.