A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them.

Burgundy was the winiest wine, the central, essential, and typical wine, the soul and greatest common measure of all the kindly wines of the earth.

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

War hath no fury like a non-combatant.

If you are to love mankind, you must not expect too much from it.

To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations.

Schools are no longer legally segregated, but because of residential patterns, housing discrimination, economic disparities and long-held custom, they most emphatically are in reality.

I turned you into a stranger in order to forget you and now I'm the stranger.

One can give up many things for love, but one should not give up oneself.

When a president speaks that usually means a lot.

I did have role models, but most of them were male.

I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch.

The tendency of all strong governments has always been to suppress liberty, partly in order to ease the processes of rule, partly from sheer disbelief in innovation.

It's you, so I feel that a person who will understand you, a person who will find you is waiting out there. So just keep on trying your best.

Desire is possibility seeking expression.

Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.