How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

An idea is salvation by imagination

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open

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

A person preaches well that lives well.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

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.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.