I considered myself most unfortunate because God had made me inhabit a female body in this world

A woman with a mind is fit for any task.

It is a deed of greater charity to give a bit of bread to the poor in the time of high prices and famine, than a whole loaf in the time of fertility and abundance.

Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.

If it has to be that wars and battles are begun for many reasons and quarrels, then they should also be avoided and shunned by better and more valid reasons.

Only the dead fail to reach out with both hands.

there is no fire without smoke but there is often smoke without fire.

The foolish rush to end their lives. Only the steadfast soul survives.

How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?

Poetry's object is truth.

Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering [women in general]?

Cultivate confidence, and eradicate the need to control.

Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.

It would be better to drown these prisoners in the Dead Sea if possible, since that's the lowest point in the world.

Conquering others takes force, conquering yourself is true strength.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

In war, only the simple succeeds.

I don't like ten dollar words. Anybody can do anything with a thesaurus. Make me feel a certain way with the least amount of words possible and I respect that.

The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.

Japan and China are isolated and without intercourse with other countries; hence the President directed me to attend to or watch the state of affairs in China also.

But thy eternal summer shall not fade.