It is so much easier to be enthusiastic than to reason!

I'm sure that all the drivers and motorcycle police had once been racing drivers and were eager to get back to that profession.

the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.

... 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?

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

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

What one has to do usually can be done.