Unless one's philosophy is all-inclusive, nothing can be understood.

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long martyrdom

The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men ... [but] The Twentieth Century Woman ... questions the completeness of the story.

Action without study fatal. Study without action is futile.

Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.

In brief, we who write are all in the same boat, as if we are survivors of torpedoes, and we hope to reach the shores of thought with strength for more activity.

The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.

Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the last page has been written?

Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.

Every revolution has its counter-revolution.

Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.

Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with.

Always be the very best you can be

Economics is a form of brain damage.

If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.

It is disgraceful that people are being barred from neighborhoods and clubs on a basis that would have barred Jesus Himself.

I never get tired of talking about food. I do getting tired of fighting governments when they are so clearly not putting the best interest of the children forward.

I think singing comes most naturally for me. Because it's part of your body - it's a natural thing. You can practice all you want but it's part of your body.

Manuals have their uses ... but they are not to be confused with living.

Hot legs, bring your Mother, too.