Dreams are great. When they disappear you may still be there, but you will have ceased to live.

Years ago, I thought old age would be dreadful, because I should not be able to do things I would want to do. Now I find there is nothing I want to do after all

The most practical thing in the world is common sense and common humanity.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

Women are young at politics, but they are old at suffering; soon they will learn that through politics they can prevent some kinds of suffering.

The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

Women have got to make the world safe for men, since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.