There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel of its pulse. It would be madness to undertake a war without that permission.

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

Their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion.

Only the mediocre die always at their best. Real leaders are always improving - and raising their bar on how superbly they can perform and how quickly they can move.

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

Women have no sense of the abstract-a woman admiring the sky is a woman caressing the sky. In a woman's mind beauty is something she needs to touch.