When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.

What worries you, masters you.

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Revolt is the right of the people

If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.

Remember that lettuce doesn’t grow on a spruce

A lie is a lieeven if everyone believes it.

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.

Alison Carr on 'Homeland.' She was such great character to play, so clever and full of surprises. I was sad to see her go.

Your own shoes are hard enough to fill, but somebody else's are even tougher.

[Suggesting an epitaph for herself:] This is on me.

I started my political life in the Resistance. It was there that I had my first responsibility.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.