To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking.

Too many escape into complexity these days. For it is an escape for persons to cry, when this question of the equality of peoples is raised in India or in our own South, 'Ah, but the situation is not so simple.' ... no great stride forward is ever made for the individual or for the human race unless the complex situation is reduced to one simple question and its simple answer.

All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.