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

I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.

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.

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.

I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.

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.

In democracy both a deep reverence and a sense of the comic are requisite.