I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.
Thought is free.
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.
Genius is sorrow's child.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
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.
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.
I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.