Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.

there is one word that can be the guide for your life- it is the word reciprocity.

For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.

I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.

Life is stronger than death.

There was an old abbot in one temple and he said something of which I think often and it was this, that when men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

The truth has never been told about women in history: that everywhere man has gone woman has gone too, and what he has done she has done also. Women are ignorant of their own past and ignorant of their own importance in that past.