I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Patty believed that parents have a duty to teach their children how to recognize reality when they see it.

I used my talent as a speaker giving lectures to young people at schools in Hungary and I speak against hatred and anti-Semitism.

I am Midnight (cats stare dumbfounded)

Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?

How sad that we can now go up in aeroplanes and see that there are no gods upon the clouds.

Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat.

I breastfed both my kids for two years so, you know it was very tiring emotionally and physically.

Even dogs and horses have their actions modified by association with human beings; they form different habits because human beings are concerned with what they do.

I saw that [music] reflected in my mother when we listened to these records [of Bob Gordon]. And I felt it too.

The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that...women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves.