“Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-”

“Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows,Help us to seeThat without the dust the rainbowWould not be.”

“America is a dream.The poet says it was promises.The people say it is promises—that will come true.The people do not always say things out loud,Nor write them down on paper.The people often holdGreat thoughts in their deepest heartsAnd sometimes only blunderingly express them,Haltingly and stumbling say them,And faultily put them into practice.The people do not always understand each other.But there is, somewhere there,Always the trying to understand,And the trying to say,"You are a man. Together we are building our land.”

“Even to an outsider like myself, not only in the theatre was such disunity evident, but in much else in government Spain. Alvarez del Vayo, Socialist Minister of Foreign Affairs, once asked, "Why is it Spain's people are so great, but her leaders so small?”

“Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas”

“When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.”

“...the only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it,....”