Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

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

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

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

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

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

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

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

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

Freedom is from within.

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.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.