“I have been struck again and again by how important measuring is to improving the human condition.”
“Spontaneity is the quality of being able to do something just because you feel like it at the moment, of trusting your instincts, of taking yourself by surprise and snatching from the clutches of your well-organized routine a bit of unscheduled pleasure.”
“Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.”
“War is not women’s history.”
“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.”
“Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.”
“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.”
“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”
“Courage is not the absence of fear. It is going forward with the face of fear.”
“I asked for strength, and God gave me difficulties to make me strong. I asked for wisdom, and God gave me problems to learn to solve. I asked for prosperity, and God gave me a brain and brawn to work. I asked for courage, and God gave me dangers to overcome. I asked for love, and God gave me people to help. I asked for favors, and God gave me opportunities. I received nothing I wanted. I received everything I needed.”
