The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.

I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions.

Obedience may have its uses, but it is no substitute for willing, uncoerced co-operation.

If you prepare yourself at every point as well as you can, with whatever means you may have, however meager they may seem, you will be able to grasp opportunity for broader experience when it appears. Without preparation you cannot do it.

Mahatma Gandhi I would say had perhaps a greater spiritual quality whereas Winston Churchill had besides the courage, ability and above everything else, the ability to put into words what his people felt so that he could always lead them. And my own husband I think had great patience, which you need in a democracy because you have to come to do fundamental things, you have to have the patience to have people educated; and then I think he had a deep interest in human beings as human beings.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.