Could she fall so low? No, there were limits, and she believed she still knew where some of them were.

Defeat in this world is no disgrace and that is what they cannot understand. If you really fought well and fought for the right thing.

Lovemaking surely must be, for human beings at our present state of development, one of the more private enterprises. Who would want a witness to that entire self-abandonment and helplessness?

God does not know whether a skin is black or white, He sees only souls.

You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.

There are so many things that we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.

Perhaps the habit which distinguishes civilized people from others is that of discussion, exchange of opinion and ideas, the ability to differ without quarrelling, to say what you have to say civilly and then to listen civilly to another speaker.