How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude!

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.

Always think in terms of solutions. Focusing on the problems usually gives us more of them.

Optimism doesn't make you more persistent. Persistence makes you more optimistic.

We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.

Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.

When you have four daughters, you learn to lose early and often.

They were fast-moving opportunists encased in cynicism and proud of it.

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too.

But after Mr. Evers got shot a week ago, lot a colored folk is frustrated in this town. Especially the younger ones, who ain't built up a callus yet.

The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.

There are two conflicting philosophies that I love: "Everything happens for a reason," as well as "you can change everything that you have control over."