We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

Women, more than men, are bound by tradition and authority. What the father, the brother, the doctor, and the minister have said has been received undoubtingly. Until women throw off this reverence for authority they will not develop.

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not.

Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.