Human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them.

The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me. In the course of twenty crowded years one parts with many illusions... I did not wish to lose the early ones. Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen again.

Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.

A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.

When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.