He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.

He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.

Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything.

Every epoch dreams its successor.

You are one of the forces of nature.

The way to gain a friend is to be one

Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule.

The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.

Our esteem is apt to be given where we know the least.

In many ways my life has been rather like a record of the lost and found. Perhaps all lives are like that.

Children are God's way of saving us. They give us a second chance at getting it right.

I believe the night I’ve never methides one elusive star I needto divide me between darkness and light

A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.

It is amazing that something I did 23 years ago still has an audience that people respond to and I am touched and surprised that people are still very positive about.

Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.

Just because you have political beliefs or feminist beliefs, you don't have to like everybody, you don't have to like everything.

If you stop for one second and do something, everyone is happy. You pay it forward and it comes back to you twelve-fold.

Some things are hard to let go of.