Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

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

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

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

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

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

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

Humility is attentive patience.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

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

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.