Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.

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.

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

People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.

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

... what most people tell you a confidence for is to get something off their chest which hasn't really been on it. They don't necessarily want to hide the truth from you, but they're out to hide it from themselves

We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone.