"Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail."

“A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.”

Source : 'House of All Nations' (1938) 'Credo'

“When I can relax, and be close to the transcendental core of me, then I may behave in strange and impulsive ways in the relationship, ways I cannot justify rationally, which have nothing to do with my thought processes. But these strange behaviors turn out to be right in some odd way. At these moments it seems that my inner spirit has reached out and touched the inner spirit of the other. Our relationship transcends itself and has become something larger.”

“Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.”

“If you have a good idea, get it out there. For every idea I’ve realized, I have ten I sat on for a decade till someone else did it first. Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.”

Source : "Dollhouse’s Joss Whedon Answers Your Questions" by Rebecca Harper, blog.hulu.com. March 6, 2009.

“A room to myself is a luxury that I do not always enjoy.”

Source : Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Frances Smith Foster (1990). “A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader”, p.133, Feminist Press at CUNY

“Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.”

“I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes - I wonder if it weighs like mine - or has an easier size.”

“I have nothing to do with this pseudo-religious approach that Gandhi is advocating.”