We all have a fight - some an easy one, and some a big one, and if you have formed the idea that there is a kind of dividing line in the world, and that on the one side is the good, and on the other side the bad, why, all I can say is that you have a wrong notion of things.

There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.

I'm a good legislator. I'm a bad some other things.

I admire Virginia Woolf so much that I wonder why I don't like her more. She makes the inner things real, she does illumine, and she makes relationships realities as well as people. But I remember the intensity, the thrill, with which I read 'Passage to India.' How I would have hated anyone who took the book away from me.

We're all made of the same kind of stuff, and there's none of us made of stuff that's flawless.

Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us.