Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . .

The natural ambition of woman is through marriage to climb up, leaning upon a man; but those days are gone. You shall be great without the help of any man, just as you are.

We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas.

Be strong! Don't talk of ghosts and devils.

If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it!

Why are people so afraid? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others. We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a Personal God, a Savior or a Prophet to do everything for us.

Art must be in touch with nature - and wherever that touch is gone, Art degenerates - yet it must be above nature.