“Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes." ~ ' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes." -”

“Don't worry about your studies. When you want to do them well you will do them superbly. But for the moment the main thing is to get what little happiness there is in this wartorn world because "these are only good old days" now.”

“A man has only one escape from his old self — to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.”

“There are no hopeless situations;there are only people who have grown hopeless about then.”

“Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that -- being what it is -- it falls so short of in fact and in deed.”

“Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.”

“Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.”