Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.

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 making a coffer of the grave.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

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

Yet somehow 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 in the way that it cares for its helpless members.