Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long martyrdom

The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men ... [but] The Twentieth Century Woman ... questions the completeness of the story.

Action without study fatal. Study without action is futile.

Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.

In brief, we who write are all in the same boat, as if we are survivors of torpedoes, and we hope to reach the shores of thought with strength for more activity.

The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.

Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the last page has been written?

Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.

Every revolution has its counter-revolution.

How is it that standing outside for a minute in 90 degree heat is torture, yet standing in a blistering hot shower for 20 minutes is paradise?

Yet how could I not have believed Hitler a genius and unique when every day I saw and heard how the major personalities of the Reich fawned over him and worshipped him with total devotion.

I'm fiercely loyal to my friends, and I really cherish my friendships.

You shouldn't call then anything. They're poor unfortunate people who cannot help the way they look.

There is also an old proverb, that they who pay much attention to the body generally neglect the soul.

The eye with which you see God is the same eye with which God sees you; one in seeing; one in knowing; one in loving.

Through meditation one has to achieve a dreamless sleep with full alertness. Once this happens, the drop falls into the ocean and becomes the ocean.

"Just give your life to us and stop worrying about things," is what Obama's message is, and people don't want to do that.

Dying for dark — and the darker the Worse. Strange.