it is the possibilities which are the most terrible things in life.

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.

Feelings change facts.

with courage a human being is safe enough. And without it - he is never for one instant safe!

She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.

Taboos on the human heart are more dangerous than any risk we run by using our emotions. Sensation is the life of man; it is his actual energy. To suppress it is to lose creative power!

When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.