I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.

No woman should say, "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?

The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us.

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not.

We especially need imagination in science. Question everything.

I had only ordinary capacity but extraordinary persistency.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn't be torn if the pages all held together.

I never wanted to be famous.

Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.

The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.

America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this.

Painting is so much more than the materials.

Assume the best but hire paranoid people.

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

Under the gold standard America had no major financial panics other than in 1873, 1884, 1890, 1893, 1907, 1930, 1931, 1932, and 1933.