For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

The only real danger to our country is from within, that we forget our own power to be what we want to be.

Love dies only when growth stops.

People on the whole are very simple-minded, in whatever country one finds them. They are so simple as to take literally, more often than no, the things their leaders tell them.

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

The concept of 'Momism' is male nonsense. It is the refuge of a man seeking excuses for his own lack of virility. I have listened to many women in various countries, and I have never found a woman who willingly 'mothers' her husband. The very idea is repulsive to her. She wants to mother the children while they are young, but never their fathers. True, she may be forced into the role of mother by a man's weaknesses and childishness, and then she accepts the role with dignity and patience, or with anger and impatience, but always with a secret, profound sadness unexpressed and inexpressible.