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

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

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

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

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.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.

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

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

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

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

Every man's memory is his private literature.