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

doing and being are very closely tied together, and unless you are doing what you secretly want to do, you aren't able to be the sort of person you want to be.

Life is stronger than death.

Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.

It is ironical that in an age when we have prided ourselves on our progress in the intelligent care and teaching of children we have at the same time put them at the mercy of new and most terrible weapons of destruction.

The greatest problem that war leaves, in a man, is how to recapture reality. That's because war is unreal.

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.