Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
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.
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.
The future ain't what it used to be.
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.
Effective action is always unjust.
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.
The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.
Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'
