You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon.

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentists drill.

There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.

Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".

At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.

The mere fact that a very large number of people believe such a thing and that the world would be a better place if it were true, is no reason for believing that it is true.

Love is quite like reading, I expect. Once you know how, you can't ever imagine not doing it.

Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.

Trying to be number one and trying to do a task well are two different things.

I think fame can come and go.

No black or white America-just United States of America.

Love is a sickness. Some kind of a pathogen existing above all explanation.

Stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one.

New blood keeps us alive.

the position of women, that sad and well-nigh universal blot on civilizations, was never far from her mind.

You must realize that if you are going to reach the heights you have been called to reach, you may elicit some criticism from those who are jealous, petty or angry because they were left behind.