I learned early to understand that there is no such condition in human affairs as absolute truth. There is only truth as people see it, and truth, even in fact, may be kaleidoscopic in its variety. The damage such perception did to me I have felt ever sinceI could never belong entirely to one side of any question.

Most mothers kiss and scold together.

It is love itself that is important -- the ability to love, no matter whom you love. For when you can no longer love anyone, you are no longer a living person. The heart dies if it loses the capacity to love.

It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.

I do not believe there is any important difference between men and women - certainly not as much as they may be between one woman and another or one man and another.

There is no beauty without order.

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.