I think I must write a book. It has been my cherished dream and I feel an influence that I cannot resist calling me to the task.

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.

Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.

As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.

Race prejudice is the devil unchained.

We sometimes underestimate the influence of little things

We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings.

Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.

We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of our creation.

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.

The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage.

Productivity starts with doing the right things.

We've had the U.N. for almost 60 years, yet we've never actually made a fundamental list of all the big things that we can do in the world, and said, 'Which of them should we do first?'

My curiosity sister of larks.

Peace is so beneficial that the word itself is pleasant to hear.

You can kill time in a number of ways but it always depends on the kind of time you're fighting: some time is unkillable, immortal

The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.

With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it will endure wear and tear.

The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and justice and freedom may be maintained.

It's such a nice change to get to play a wretched, shallow, mergers-and-acquisitions woman. My true colors come out.