We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

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.

It is natural anywhere that people like their own kind, but it is not necessarily natural that their fondness for their own kind should lead them to the subjection of whole groups of other people not like them.

I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.

an artist is always seeking revelation.