I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

Peace is its own reward.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.