What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?

Feelings, too, are facts. Emotion is a fact. Human experience is a fact. It is often possible to gain more real insight into human beings and their motivation by reading great fiction than by personal acquaintance.

Nobody else is going to do the things which are yours to be done in the world.

Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.

Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.

No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.