Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

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

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

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.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

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

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

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?