That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.

Patience and endurance were not virtues in a woman; they were necessities, forced on her. Perhaps some day things would change and women would renounce them. They would rise up and say: 'We are not patient. We will endure no more.' Then what would happen to the world?

War is a thing of fearful and curious anomalies ... It has shown that government by men only is not an appeal to reason, but an appeal to arms; that on women, without a voice to protest, must fall the burden. It is easier to die than to send a son to death.

I suppose it is because woman's courage is mental and man's physical, that in times of great strain women always make the better showing.

Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.

Herbert used to say that he was as tight as the paper on the wall.

there is no truly honest autobiography.