Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old..

A woman's mind is not an instrument apart from her other being. She does not separate herself as man does, now flesh, now mind, now heart. She is the….

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death..

There was an old abbot in one temple and he said something of which I think often and it was this, that when men destroy their old gods they will fin….

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends..

Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless..

though some men did not make war as others did, if they sold their goods for profit to the war-makers, did it make them better because the weapon was….

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness..

Too many escape into complexity these days. For it is an escape for persons to cry, when this question of the equality of peoples is raised in India ….

Just about everything significant in my life happened after I passed forty. I was a housewife and mother, but yearned to be a writer. I worked at my ….

Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is irrelevant and….

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation..

No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son..

A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet..

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work..

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked..

If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writin….

Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away th….

It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow..

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors..

Only the brave should teach....Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels ….