Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!

It is you men who make war! ... We, who have children, would never make it! Why should a woman be broken up in pain, to give her child life, only to see him carried away from her, to make food for guns?

Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it may be put can very easily be changed.

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being out of the trap of Life?

Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!

We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them.