As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.