Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us.

Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.

Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.

Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.

When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.

No one really believes in equality who's on top.

A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world