We were idealists. We thought that when we got the vote the whole pattern of politics would be greatly improved and would be dominated by women.

While women's suffrage has not brought about the political millennium which its fondest backers predicted, its effects on the whole have been decidely beneficial.

Breathe in the small things

When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all.

Worse still is that mankind - the non-Jewish world - learned nothing from the Holocaust: The event which had no precedent in history, which should be equal to the Revelation at Sinai in significance.

Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.

I'm not talking to you from the point of view of wishful thinking or imaginary craziness. i'm talking to you from a deeper, basic understanding.

Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.

Perhaps it is while drinking tea that I most of all enjoy the sense of leisure.

How unconvincing. Try again.

If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of it.

I would stay in my room for days, for days at times, just trying to get it together, to know what my next phase was going to be.