Education is the chief remedy for all those great evils which afflict the country. Education will not only cultivate and improve the intellect of the nation, but will also purify its character.

Her (India's) great curse is caste; but English education has already proved a tremendous power in levelling the injurious distinctions of caste.

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.

To marry once is a duty twice a folly thrice is madness.

I'm not dressing for anyone else. I don't really subscribe to other people's idea of what is beautiful. I just want to feel good.

Maybe they notice me wincing whenever I hear them say it, but I don't know: there are all sorts of reasons I could be wincing. Life is a wince-a-thon.

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

You seem to forget, Miss Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.

I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.

Women should have the freedom to do whatever they need to do to feel good about themselves.

I don't mind if you forget me. Having learned my lesson, I never left an impression on anyone.