With five to ten hundred pure-minded young women threading the streets of the village every evening unattended, vice must slink away, like frost before the rising sun.

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.

Let our girls feel that we expect something more of them than that they merely look pretty and appear well in society.

Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.

Peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.

The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.

A stream cannot rise higher than its source.

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.

Life must be something more than dilettante speculation.

Teach [our girls] that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and is already asking for their trained, efficient forces.

I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without.

What you conquer in your soul you conquer in your world.

Van Gogh couldn't have painted the stars in your eyes.

Your kiss swallows meAnd engulfs my very soul

He prefers his adventures second hand.

Sometimes, I wondered if I might speed up his words by grabbing his wrists and finishing his gestures for him.

Faith is nothing else than trust in the divine mercy promised in Christ.

Common sense is not really so common. The Art of Thinking: Port-Royal Logic

Write while the heat is in you.

Sometimes I think it'd be fun to do a completely different job for a while. You've got one life and you do the same job for the whole of it, and you think - was that a good use of a life?

Why is it forbidden in New York to acknowledge the charm and beauty of Los Angeles?