"The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them."

"It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend."

"A life without philosophical reflection is a vessel adrift on an uncharted sea. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"When ambition meets humility, we find that the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."

"Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights."

"If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch."

"He who conquers his inner doubts has already won half the war. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever."