Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.

Stay the course, light a star, Change the world where'er you are.

On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.

I meant to do my work today But a brown bird sang in the apple tree And a butterfly flitted across the field And all the leaves were calling me.

All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal.

In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more coming to share with each other as comrades, and really the fun of life seems in no wise diminished as a consequence.

A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.

It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.

At the outstart of discussions of women's intellectual attainments, it is well to remember how few are the men of the first rank.

The customer is not always right.

I'd rather be a creature of the night than an old dude.

Anybody has a right to evade taxes if he can get away with it. No citizen has a moral obligation to assist in maintaining his government

Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts. (Ghan-buri-Ghan, of allies during war)

Monotheism is but imperialism in religion.

What's exciting about watching a movie, when it's finished, is you sometimes you don't recognize yourself, and that's when I'm really proud.

Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.