What is it to grow old? Is it to lose the glory of the form, The lustre of the eye? Is it for Beauty to forego her wreath? Yes; but not this alone.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.

Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.

Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming

He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.

Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong and that 99% of them are wrong.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

There is no vaccine against stupidity.

Love and lies can corrupt even the purest heart.

Every moment waited is a moment wasted.

In 1930 I became a member of the Reichstag.

What if you, too, were to greet every interaction in your life with the question 'What's the potential opportunity that this is?'

Growing up crowds your mind with new thoughts and new feelings so that you forget how you used to think and feel.

Hillary Clinton represents staunch feminists, she represents the new era of feminists.

When you trance out properly, when you're completely in that world, there is no other world, so there's no conflict.