Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

I’m so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

It is not more vacation we need – it is more vocation.

I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Understanding is a two-way street.