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

Conflict is the very essence of life.

[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.

Great loves were almost always great tragedies. Perhaps it was because love was never truly great until the element of sacrifice entered into it.

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.

it's been my experience that the first few days of married life women are blind because they want to be and after that because they have to be.

When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.