It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

Our children ... are not treated with sufficient respect as human beings, and yet from the moment they are born they have this right to respect. We keep them children for too long, their world separate from the real world of life.

Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

I do not believe there is any important difference between men and women - certainly not as much as they may be between one woman and another or one man and another.

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.

I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not.