Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.

The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light - and the next tunnel.

Sincerity that thinks it is the sole possessor of the truth is a deadlier sin than hypocrisy, which knows better.

The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.

Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.

As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it.