I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rest is not a word of free people. Rest is a monarchical word.

So I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.

Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child.

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.

My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.

Whenever a people or an institution forget its hard beginnings, it is beginning to decay.