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.

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.

The world is full of holes and uneven seams, wrinkled places that you can’t make smooth, no matter how hard you try.

Every morning the first thing I do is serve my husband a bowl full of praises. More then his stomach I try to keep his ego full.

What a man enjoys about a woman's clothes are his fantasies of how she would look without them.

I respect, too, the fact that in our legal order it is for Congress and not the courts to write new laws. It is the role of judges to apply, not alter, the work of the people's representatives.

The man who fears man falls from the estate of man. Fear God alone.

One can always learn from others. The Champion's Mind holds a wealth of insight as to how you can become a winner in your everyday life.

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.

Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.

So, sometimes, when I'm not happy with my performance and I have to think, I will think in English