I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

His modesty amounts to deformity.

Dare to risk public criticism.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

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

What is to give light must endure burning.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.