The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.

For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.

A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.

We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work

She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this.And when hope is gone, time is punishment.

We need to adopt a set of common values and be ready to live out those values

I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

Every day is different, and some days are better than others, but no matter how challenging the day, I get up and live it.

The moment you understand the importance of loving yourself, you will stop hurting others.

We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?

Each city has its own culinary landscape.

The writer in me can look as far as an African-American woman and stop. Often that writer looks through the African-American woman. Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now