No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

People change and forget to tell each other.

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms.

I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.

I like to believe that rather than destroy icons, I make new ones.

I have to say I have never been comfortable with somebody else telling me what to do - in any way.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

... the movements of the body reveal the movements of the soul.

November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year.

The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.

...learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own.

I met my husband when a friend sent him over to my house to cure my hiccoughs.