The idea is that inside every human being, however unprepossessing, there is a glorious, talented, and overwhelmingly attractive personality. Nonsense. Inside each of us is a mess of unruly, primitive impulses, and these can sometimes, under the strenuous self-discipline and dedication of art, result in notable creativity.

In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it.

Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced.

A lady getting a missing belt back from the cleaner couldn't have been more surprised and pleased.

Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had.

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

Not being one to calculate or look ahead, I had not stopped to think, when boys started paying attention to me, that the cup might be dashed from my lips, though experience should have taught me that dashing cups from lips was the way Victorian parents got most of their exercise.