Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

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

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Nothing is black or white.

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

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Common sense is not so common.

That which costs little is less valued.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.