Common sense is not so common.

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

Effective action is always unjust.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

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

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

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

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

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.