So she [Eleanor Roosevelt] is an amazing First Lady. What other First Lady in U.S. history has ever written a book to criticize her husband's policies?

And even when success comes, as I am sure it will, bear in mind that there are more quiet and enviable joys than to be among the most sought after women at a ball.

And even when success comes, as I am sure it will, bear in mind that there are more quiet and enviable joys than to be among the most sought after women at a ball...

We have not the time to take our time.

I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.

You will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime.

This veridic nose arrives everywhere a quarter of an hour before its master. Ten shoemakers, good round fat ones too, go and sit down to work under it out of the rain.

If we do not want to die together in war, we must learn to live together in peace.

A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.

I like the whole package to be good, It's a rarity that that happens, so I end up not working a lot.

Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.

If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you.

People get so attached to a position which they identify themselves with that they just spurt it out, but they can't really give you a viable reason why they feel that way.