At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.

You are right,” he had said. “Love is not the word. No one can love his neighbor. Say, rather, ‘Know thy neighbor as thyself.” That is, comprehend his hardships and understand his position, deal with his faults as gently as with your own. Do not judge him where you do not judge yourself. Madame, this is the meaning of the word love.

It certainly must have been a relief for women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political.

Every era of renaissance has come out of new freedoms for peoples. The coming renaissance will be greater than any in human history, for this time all the peoples of the earth will share in it.

No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son.

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

God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness . He is not in the general. He is in the particular.