Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

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

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.

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

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.