 The artist in me cries out for design. |
| A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. |
| If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom. |
| Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. |
| The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. |
| To be social is to be forgiving. |
| If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia. |
| Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar. |
| I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old. |
| The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination. |
| The only certain freedom's in departure. |
| I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down. |
| Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so. |
| One aged man - one man - can't fill a house. |
| I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn. |
| Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on. |
| I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. |
| You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. |
| Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. |
| A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman. |
