I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

You may not need to do it all, design it all or direct it all. But when it comes to making things you want to happen to happen you may well have to inspire and drive it all.

The Holy Spirit speaks sacred words.

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don't have any kids yourself.

I want to wish you all luck with every bit of life you have ahead of you! Be strong. Be fearless. Be passionate.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed

The truth is lived before it is understood. It must be fought for, tested, and appropriated. Truth is the way... Anyone will easily understand it if he just gives himself to it.

To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.