I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions. – Dorothy Day
Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them. – Dorothy Day
Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do. – Dorothy Day
The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on. – Dorothy Day
Each one of us is alone in the world… We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, 1919