For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

For God's sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don't say surgaries, or I'm done.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.

She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her.

My soul is my great asset and my great misfortune.