the heart never grows old.

If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being.

Only the brave should teach....Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels a great artist. If he has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and the artist, he must not teach.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources.

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.

The head raised too high even in good will be struck off too soon.