The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was.

It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked or bring down a storm of criticism on my head.

When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur.

... the next war will be a war in which people not armies will suffer, and our boasted, hard-earned civilization will do us no good. Cannot the women rise to this great opportunity and work now, and not have the double horror, if another war comes, of losing their loved ones, and knowing that they lifted no finger when they might have worked hard?