The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?
By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful
Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
Moonlight is sculpture.
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.
I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.
The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.
I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.
Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
Of all the things I`ve lost I miss my mind the most.