Anger can give energy to the mind but only if it is harnessed and held in control.

Iowans know themselves and what they are doing. They are doing well.

To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.

French is the most beautiful,” he said, “and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other.

You are free when you gain back yourself,” Madame Wu said. “You can be as free within these walls as you could be in the whole world. And how could you be free if, however far you wander, you still carry inside yourself the constant thought of him? See where you belong in the stream of life. Let it flow through you, cool and strong. Do not dam it with your two hands, lest he break the dam and so escape you. Let him go free, and you will be free.

It certainly must have been a relief for women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political.

None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.