The inferiority of women is man-made.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.

There are different kinds of people in the world.

I know who the Versace woman is because I wear the clothes myself.

I hope that schools have changed since I was a little girl. My memory of the teaching of the public schools is that it showed the brutal incomprehension of children.

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/ My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk.

I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.

When it comes to flying, I am a nervous passenger but a confident drinker and Valium-swallower.

I prefer to play the villain or the antihero.

Make-up? What happened? You look almost female." "Thanks. You look almost straight.