It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.

You can end love more easily than you can moderate it.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.

Nothing is our except time.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.

I like working alone. I feel freer, less constrained. I know what I have to do and I try to do it. There are no superficial hangups.

You can't do it alone. Two things joined to a third thing are joined to each other. A is united to B and C is united to B. Therefore, A and C are united.

Being a single mother should not stop you from helping your children to reach their full potential.

Prejudice is a belief born from a shortcut to thinking

I want to thank everybody who made this day necessary.

If you're going to make a law, make a law that actually works. It's extraordinarily difficult.

Shakespeare wouldn't have been any good if he'd stayed in Stratford. He had to go to London to be bathed in the full current of the Renaissance.

Anytime I hear that somebody's really rich, the first question is, 'Do you do anything with it? Or do you, like, chill? You just sit on it?'

Public 'career feminists' have been more concerned with getting more women into 'boardrooms,' when the problem is that there are altogether too many boardrooms, and none of them are on fire.

Don't just analyze a problem - solve it.