There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

What is to give light must endure burning.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

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

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.