She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel.
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.