The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

In the long run there is no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely and then act boldly.

I think it is impossible for one human being really to know another without first knowing and being at peace with himself.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

Courage is exhilarating.

I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no headache, thus and so had to be done.

The constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing.