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.

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

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

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

Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

Love can never be a sin. It can be only a blessing. Even if you're not loved in return -- though I can't imagine that -- to love is a proof of life -- indeed, it's the only proof, for once you can't love another human being, you're not alive.