“Truth survives.”

I thought I’d spent too much of my life listening for some damn man – for my father and now for my husband.

She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before

A great many of us have confused change with progress.

I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.

Death is a door life opens.

I think death has a right to its own courage and dignity and self-respect.

Happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you’re lucky.

There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.

Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness.

The motion picture is the people’s Art.

God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.

The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth.

Truth, even in the mouth of an informer, a spy, a briber, can become bigger than anybody who tries to destroy it.

Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.

Happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you’re lucky.

Woman’s work as a listener is never done. …

Actually, I am loathe to admit, but I also remember freshman year of Emory – and I’m so sorry to have to admit this – but there was a Domino’s Pizza in Emory Village, where I went to college, and I was ordering a pizza.

Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn’t intend, or they were stylizing something that was compromising the play

I think what we are confronting now is a new war of ideas. It’s not communism versus capitalism, but it is authoritarianism versus democracy and representative government.

The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.

Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.

God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.