We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them..

all daughters, even when most aggravated by their mothers, have a secret respect for them. They believe perhaps that they can do everything better th….

It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true..

The only creative power I know is that of what might roughly be called 'love'; not of course a sentimental love: a far more impersonal and less indiv….

A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is..

Life was a series of messes, and one spent one's time cleaning them up; if one had any heart at all one also gave a part of one's time to cleaning up….

Our responsibility to ourselves comes first -- because in a sense what one is oneself is the responsibility that one has for others!.

... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled.

Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it..

A refugee is as helpless as a new born child - but not so appealing! Besides, a new born child has no memories!.

death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more ….

There is no thermometer for wants!.

Anger is like mild, it should not be kept too long..

Lots of men hate women now-a-days. ... It was a man-made world, and now we're asking to go shares in the making..

Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked -- past the circle of outside lights, through th….

She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves ….

if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain m….

To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless again….

Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness..

it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way..

Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others - what is that to us? Let them alone..