if one's natural feelings are suppressed long enough one develops supernatural feelings and feels surer of having a soul.

Invitations to speak upon public occasions are among my most grievous embarrassments. Why is it inferred that one is or can be a public speaker because she has written a book? Writing is a very private business. I do not know any other occupation which requires so much privacy unless it is a life of prayer or a life of crime.

Maybe I shall never achieve happiness, but one thing I have had - the terrible wisdom of love.

I have long suspected that the power of speech is not a power at all, but a mere form of hysteria from which the living that really know the truth never suffer because they do not fear life or death as we do and can afford to be calm and silent. The frailest flower that blooms knows that it will rise from the dead in the next season's sun, breathe, feel again the dew and rain. Therefore these little ones make no such tragedy as we do of death.

war is a ferocious form of insanity. Nothing can justify it.

This is the wonderful thing about the pure in heart--they do see God.

I love truth, although I shall die hating mere facts, because they are misleading.