The least difficult thing a foreign missionary has to learn is the language; the part of her work which she has the most reason to dread is its responsibility.

No people ever rise higher, as a people, than the point to which they elevate their women.

To assert dignity is to lose it.

Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.

Dear Sweetheart, Without you my days are endless. Days seem like weeks... Weeks feel like months... Months like years... Years like centuries... Centuries like... You get the idea.

Never forgetting from where I came and no matter where I'm headed I promise to stay the same

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

A tribe, let us say, is warlike. The successes for which it strives, the achievements upon which it sets store, are connected with fighting and victory.

It's so important what you're doing in your life. It's tremendously important to the work, and no aesthetic theories take that into account.

Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot.

Traditions have been replaced by lifestyles.

The crocodile cannot turn its head. Like all science, it must always go forward with all-devouring jaws.