"It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous."

"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."

"We do not judge the people we love."

"All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure."

"We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience."

"Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable."

"My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969."

"The richness of existence is found in simple harmonies, not superfluous splendors. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."