There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

Lots of men hate women now-a-days. ... It was a man-made world, and now we're asking to go shares in the making.

To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.

Curiosity is the only thing that really carries through time, isn't it? The creative curiosity, I mean, which fights its way into expression?

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.

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

Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked -- past the circle of outside lights, through the street walls still standing -- into the want and emptiness within!