Every crucial experience can be regarded as a setback - or a start of a new kind of development. [You have the responsibility to decide if you will see it as a bad setback or good start!]

The only way to make a husband over according to one's ideas ... would be to adopt him at an early age, say four.

The greatest weapon in the world ... is ridicule.

It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.

[To her frequently needed plumber:] How would you like to be adopted? I'm sure it would be cheaper.

I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.

War is not two great armies meeting in the clash and frenzy of battle. War is a boy being carried on a stretcher, looking up at God’s blue sky with bewildered eyes that are soon to close; war is a woman carrying a child that has been injured by a shell; war is spirited horses tied in burning buildings and waiting for death; war is the flower of a race, battered, hungry, bleeding, up to its knees in filthy water; war is an old woman burning a candle before the Mater Dolorsa for the son she has given.