I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains... My advice is : 'Go outside, to the fields, enjoy nature and the sunshine, go out and try to recapture happiness in yourself and in God. Think of all the beauty that's still left in and around you and be happy!'

I believe that in the course of the next century [as dated from June 13, 1944] the notion that it's a woman's duty to have children will change and make way fo…

I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even a…

I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people…

I've found that there is always some beauty left -in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can help you. Look at these things, then find yourself again…

I cannot but think that he who finds a certain proportion of pain and evil inseparably woven up in the life of the very worms, will bear his own share with mor…

The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.