The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Jests that give pains are not jests.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

Be that self which one truly is.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Freedom is from within.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.