Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.

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?

Every revolution has its counter-revolution.

Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.

So much dependsupona blue carsplattered with mudspeeding down the road.

A cardinal principle of good fiction [is]: the theme and the plot of a novel must be integrated—as thoroughly integrated as mind and body or thought and action in a rational view of man.

Failure? Scared to death of it.

I am quite a relaxed person out of the car, but in the car I am aggressive, I never give up, I fight to the end and I try 100% all the time.

During those years the past life recollections began. Psychic powers developed, my meditation increased and I found myself changing, over and over again, becoming someone new almost every day.

Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find nothing. They have an empty head and seared hearts.

Ratings agencies are the glue that ostensibly holds the entire financial industry together.

Open your eyes at last and see... now I will open the book of the world for you,there are no words in it, just pictures.

Critics hang around and wait for others to make mistakes. But the real doers of the world have not time for criticizing others. They are too busy doing, making mistakes, improving, making progress.

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.