stories are the one sure way I know to touch the heart and change the world.
It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
Congenial labor is essence of happiness.
The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
Just once in a while, let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.
I do think that sometimes you can invent more palatable or digestible reasons versions or reasons, when perhaps you don't want to admit the truth to yourself, and sometimes we deceive ourselves - along with others - about our reasons and motives.
The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.
Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it.