The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.
I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.
If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.
To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
the heart never grows old.
The truth has never been told about women in history: that everywhere man has gone woman has gone too, and what he has done she has done also. Women are ignorant of their own past and ignorant of their own importance in that past.