When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.

I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

an artist is always seeking revelation.

Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless.

For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize this we shall never achieve a real democracy on this earth.

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.

It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.