There are few young women in existence who have not the power of fascinating, if they choose to exert it.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

It was a wonderful life. To have a stage play right in this room, with real people acting real parts.

You mean you’re not God? Nooo, say it isn’t so!

I won't be happy unless I finish Lyoto Machida.

To be afraid is the miserable condition of a coward. To do wrong, or omit to do right from fear, is to superadd delinquency to cowardice.

As the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

I've worked as someone's deputy, and now it's time for me to run something. It's time for me to run my own shop.

If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.

Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.

Sitting down with younger women writers and saying, "This is what I do and you can do this" is hugely important.

And he dreamed the dream of all those who publish books, which was to have so much gold in your pockets that you would have to employ two people just to hold your trousers up.