Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.

If you want a world ruled by law and not by force you must build up, from the very grassroots, a respect for law.

In the long run there is no more liberating, no more exhilarating experience than to determine one’s position, state it bravely, and then act boldly. Action brings with it its own courage, its own energy, a growth of self-confidence that can be acquired in no other way

Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge

Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.