Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.

Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.

Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming

He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.

Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.

Life is like business. It's 20% what happens to you and 80% how you respond”.

Money is just the poor man's credit card.

Partial justice may exist with hatred; full justice requires charity.

When we look at the budget, the budget is bad to a large extent because we have people that have no idea as to what to do and how to buy.

It's true what they say - all the good men are married. But it's marriage that makes them good.

The beginning of my life was simple and much like every other little life. I came, I saw, I conquered, as the first baby in the family always does.

If someone asks you for something, provide them with a clear "No" or a delivery date.

We are rapidly moving into the post-industrial age, when we must redefine what is "productive" work, as more and more jobs are being replaced by automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence.