Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

No good can come from beating ourselves up for falling down—for feeling unhappy when we want to feel just the opposite.

It is entirely possible to be deeply sorry because of the devastation which sin has wrought in our lives—and yet not repent.

Better to be able to love than to be loveable.

I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.

There are few restrictions on your life with asthma, as long as you take care of yourself.

Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.

A time, methinks, too short To make a world-without-end bargain in.