Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

Courage is grace under pressure.