Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

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

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

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.

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

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

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.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

A good liar must have a good memory.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.