This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.

Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.

Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.

It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.

It is so true that a woman may be in love with a woman, and a man with a man. It is pleasant to be sure of it, because it is undoubtedly the same love that we shall feel when we are angels.

I remember the lights turning into blurs of blazing fire. I remember the air-conditioning chilling my arms. The smell of coffee smudging into the smell of eucalyptus.

Take charge of your life! The tides do not command the ship. The sailor does.

The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.

Trust is a great force multiplier.

Women's place is where they can do the most good.

The question is no longer whether the United States should contribute to assuring Israel's survival and prosperity; that goes without saying.

I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of [CIA] sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors.

Good values are like a magnet – they attract good people.

My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well.

If women really did have complete equality with men, society would be completely overturned.