It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.

There is no door at which the hand of woman has knocked for admission into a new field of toil but there have been found on the other side the hands of strong and generous men eager to turn it for her, almost before she knocks.

One has no right to form ideals of people, and then, because they don't justify them, become bitter.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.

the brain works better if the hand works too.

Love that has been given to you is too sacred a thing to be talked of to anyone ... except just to the person who is like part of you and who will feel it as you do.