There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.

The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.

[John D. Rockefeller] didn't care about anyone he did anything just to be rich and be the only company standing without any competition. He destroyed anyone else.

The quest of the truth had been born in me - the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man's quests.

A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.

It's always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!

A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed.

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

I love Karl Rove. He elected Bush.

...they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying.

I hate being called "Liz", because it can sound like such a hiss.

Painting is manual labor, no different from any other; it can be done well or poorly.

Follow the lead of your symptoms, for there’s usually a myth in the mess, and a mess is an expression of soul.

Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.

There is nothing that torments Satan more than the sight of a faithful in prayer.

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

I constantly signal to the Iraqi leaders that our patience, or the patience of the American people, is running out.