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

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Common sense is not so common.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.