If everything was in your favor, if you did not have to surmount any great mountains, then you have nothing to be proud of. But if you feel that you have special difficulties, then you must indeed be proud of your achievement.

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.

No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick!

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.

Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.

No one from the beginning of time has had security.

I have a great objection to seeing anyone, particularly anyone whom I care about, lose his self-control.