Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

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.

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

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

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

Boards don't hit back.

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

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

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

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

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