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

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart.

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.

A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

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.