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.

If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being.

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

When we know what we want to prove, we go out and find our facts. They are always there.

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

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.

An Englishman is never afraid of being laughed at. He just thinks the other fellow is a fool. But Americans still can't risk anybody laughing at them.