People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.

NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I'm to get to know myself and the world outside. That's why I can't stay here with you any longer.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

Was the majority right when they stood by while Jesus was crucified? Was the majority right when they refused to believe that the earth moved around the sun and let Galileo be driven to his knees like a dog? It takes fifty years for the majority to be right. The majority is never right until it does right.

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.