Rome is the city above all cities which loses most of its meaning to those who do not bring to it some historical sense, a decent knowledge of art, and a good amount of time. Rome therefore is particularly disturbing to an American.

The main thing is to get what little happiness there is out of life in this wartorn world because ‘these are the good old days’ now.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forebearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that-being what it is-it falls so short of in fact and in deed.

Young men still desire women as much as ever, even though they don't want to marry them as much.

But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?

To put a woman on the ticket would challenge the loyalty of women everywhere to their sex, because it would be made to seem that the defeat of the ticket meant the defeat for a hundred years of women's chance to be truly equal with men in politics.

No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.