Dreams are great. When they disappear you may still be there, but you will have ceased to live.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

The only thing I like about rich people is their money.

I married beneath me. All women do.

One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.

Women have got to make the world safe for men, since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

[After her election to the British Parliament and being welcomed to 'the most exclusive men's club in Europe':] It won't be exclusive long. When I came in, I left the door wide open!

The most practical thing in the world is common sense and common humanity.

In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.

The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.

For why war? Nada ne hurt, sister ne hurt, for why you make vesna sore? For why!

You want to embrace, but I can't figure out how to hold on to it.

Hardships make us strong. Problems give birth to wisdom. Sorrows cultivate compassion. Those who have suffered the most will become the happiest.

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.

Now we have this idea that, not only do you go to first grade to learn your family's language, but you go to a university to learn about the person you were before you left home.

At first there was nothingthen nothing turned itself inside-out and became something

Dreiser wanted to write the next great American novel, and his desperation pervades [ Sister Carrie ] like an unsavory pit stain.

My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.

The better the actor, the more stupid he is.