It is not in our drawing-rooms that we should look to judge of the intrinsic worth of any style of dress. The street-car is a truer crucible of its inherent value.

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done.

Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.

The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection.

A perfect marriage is like a pure heart ... those who have it are fit to see God.

Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.

A literary woman's best critic is her husband.

What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims.

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

... to work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always respected a goodblacksmith more than a lady of leisure.

Life is simple, as simple as Quant.

the song of the deadheavy as rain on the wide banana leaveshard as drums

It's difficult to change things in a positive way.

When you ask the best questions of yourself and others, you invite the best answers.

I don't know if you can tell, but I grew up watching a lot of television.

A monetary order created and managed by politicians and officials is bound to disappoint.

It's hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time.

My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I'm very protective.

Give the child good books, then let it alone! Don't plough and harrow its brain, or stretch it on Procrustes-beds of standardization, simplification, and what not!

Get power but don't admit to it. Do it by stealth. There's a whole trend of Rhodes scholars who will be politicians around the world.