I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.

Life is a daring adventure or nothing.

When one door of hapiness closes, another opens.

Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free. Once I fretted and beat myself against the wall that shut me in. My life was without a past or future, and death a consummation devoutly to be wished. But a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hands that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped up with the rapture of living. I do not know the meaning of the darkness, but I have learned the overcoming of it.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Serious harm, I am afraid, has been wrought to our generation by fostering the idea that they would live secure in a permanent order of things.

I never fight, except against difficulties.