When we know what we want to prove, we go out and find our facts. They are always there.

From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that house was a gateway to America.

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

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

men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.

when the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war.

Yet there were times when he did love her with all the kindness she demanded, and how was she to know what were those times? Alone she raged against his cheerfulness and put herself at the mercy of her own love and longed to be free of it because it made her less than he and dependent on him. But how could she be free of chains she had put upon herself? Her soul was all tempest. The dreams she had once had of her life were dead. She was in prison in the house. And yet who was her jailer except herself?