You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

I didn't break the rules, but I challenged the rules.

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track — the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on.

Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.

There are no new ideas, just new ways of giving those ideas we cherish breath and power in our own living.