Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?

To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.

Catherine the Great, like others of her kind, did not succeed in imparting greatness to her descendants.

Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.

Few persons can relate the story of their childhood without idealizing, or distorting, or overdramatizing the facts.

One must speak in such a way that although someone else, or many others, or an infinite number of people have said it before, it seems as though you said it first.

If the spirit of business adventure is dulled, this country will cease to hold the foremost position in the world.

As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.

Whether you are running a business, an industry, or a nation - what is needed are insight, integrity, and inspiration.

At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product.

It's hard to plan for what comes next when what comes next is not something you planned for.

You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans.

Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

How can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn't saved, isn't taught?

It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.