Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.

I don't think it's possible to write a good play or paint a good picture and be a good Republican.

Good-fellowship, unflagging, is the prime requisite for success in our society, and the man or woman who smiles only for reasons of humor or pleasure is a deviate.

Is there no end to this escalation of desire?

All wars derive from lack of empathy: the incapacity of one to understand and accept the likeness or difference of another. Whether in nations or the encounters of race and sex, competition then replaces compassion, subjection excludes mutuality.

Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had.

Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.