Well, it is a humiliating reflection, that the straightest road to a man's heart is through his palate.

I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.

What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.

To her, the name of father was another name for love.

Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice.

O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living.

There are no little things. "Little things," so called, are the hinges of the universe.

I am getting sick of people. I am falling in love with things. They hold their tongues.

Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.

The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman.

I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to go 'neck and heels' into it.

To be a leader you have to jump into the ocean of uncertainty and lead the followers toward the known or unknown destination.

That kind of monotony that running generates - the one soundtracked by heavy breathing and the steady rhythm of feet on pavements - became a kind of metaphor for depression.

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.

I tried to make the Olympics team in 1956

I am leading a war against the British Empire. I'm not worried about what Democratic Party hacks say or do.

We live in a real world. Come back to it.

Awareness is a mirror reflecting the four elements. Beauty is a heart that generates love and a mind that is open.

I am in favor of preserving the French habit of kissing the hands of ladies. After all one must start somewhere.

Visits to crowded Indian urban centers unleash sensory assaults: colorful dress and lilting chatter provide a backdrop to every manner of commerce, from small shops to peddlers to beggars.

It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine.