I can't avoid writing. It's a sort of nervous tic I have developed since I gave up needlepoint.

There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals - With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.

In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'

The main thing is to get what little happiness there is out of life in this wartorn world because ‘these are the good old days’ now.

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.

Sherrie would be there, and the last time I’d seen her at a social event she burst into tears when she saw me and ran out of the room. You’re upset, I’d yelled after her, meanly.

Sleep riches and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted.

Olympic athletes have to find a job right after they're done competing.

I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.

No number before zero. The numbers may go on forever, but like the cosmos, they have a beginning.

Football fanaticism and high intellect seldom go together.

Which only goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,' Dumbledore went on, smiling.

Time is invincible, impregnable, insurmountable, invulnerable, unstoppable and time is invisible.

Every widow I have met has recognized in the wheel a dear forgotten friend.