"Wherever you are, be there. If you can be fully present now, you'll know what it means to live."

“And the mind actually does generate electrical currents - very weak ones and not necessarily ones that can be picked up by anyone else.”

“The best is the cheapest.”

“As people turn to contraception, there will be a rise, not a fall, in the abortion rate.”

“That's the kind of stuff you are offered today. Scripts that have you mixed up with young men. I find them utterly revolting.”

“Every great creative idea, formulated as a philosophy, has a social setting - in time, in a geographical location, in a political economy, in a matrix of interests and knowledge. It is not a free-swinging phenomenon like a balloon without moorings. It is not produced in a vacuum and, being creative, it does not work in a vacuum. Nurtured on things experienced and things known, it reaches out toward the unknown like a flower on a stalk growing out of the soil.”

Source : Mary Ritter Beard, Ann J. Lane (1977). “Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard”, p.168, Feminist Press at CUNY

“It is hard to wait and press and pray, and hear no voice, but stay till God answers.”

“There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library.”

“I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty.”