He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.

Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.

Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything.

Every epoch dreams its successor.

You are one of the forces of nature.

The way to gain a friend is to be one

Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule.

The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.

Our esteem is apt to be given where we know the least.

Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good.

Like a firework, a person’s life flashed brightest right before expiration.

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

It takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done.

In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.

If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

Character is never built in a classroom; it is built in the circumstances of life.

My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.

I've been typed as a horror writer, and I've always said to people, "I don't care what you call me as long as the checks don't bounce and the family gets fed."

You're much better off as a love goddess to die around the age of 40.