By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

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

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

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

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.