We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that`s OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

Boards don't hit back.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

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

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

The future ain't what it used to be.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

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.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.