To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.

To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no use to attempt to influence the constitution of the government by acting on opinion, is to forget that opinion is itself one of the greatest active social forces. One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

God is a word to express, not our ideas, but the want of them.

Whatever helps to shape the human being - to make the individual what he is, or hinder him from being what he is not - is part of his education.

When one's ideas are not challenged, one's ability to defend them weakens.

All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. The only chance is to treat not happiness, but some end external to it, as the purpose of life.