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

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

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

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.

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

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

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

An idea is salvation by imagination

Dare to risk public criticism.

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.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

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

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

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.