The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking.

There was an old abbot in one temple and he said something of which I think often and it was this, that when men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

I am mentally bifocal.