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.

Men were not equal in the effort they made, nor did equal efforts bring equal result. ... Equality of opportunity, yes. Equality of effort and result, no.

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!]

I found that my name signed to a check was even more welcome than when signed to a letter.

the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.

[The writer] wants both to do the best possible work and also to reach the largest possible audience. The result is a fairly normal condition of discouragement.

I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.