Being a lady is a frightfully troublesome assignment, since it comprises mainly in managing men.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness

If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything .

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

A bull doesn’t go wrong in predicting an upswing in a falling market. He goes wrong when he predicts a down swing in a rising market.

Leaders console the world with their speeches, heroes console the world with their actions.

He was part of us and when he died, all the actions stopped dead and there was no one to do them just the way he did.

I don't think there's such a thing as an evil animal.

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.

I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.

I feel so lucky that I've been on shows that have been by and large critically acclaimed and that audiences like it.

Poetry relishes ripe fruit - but ripe is one thing and overripe quite another. That's something poetry doesn't like, so it couldn't care less if I were to fall overripe to the ground.

There is nothing as likely to succeed as what the enemy believes you cannot attempt.

When Tibetan lamas die they stay in a realization of clear light nature of the mind for several days or weeks.