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

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

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.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

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

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

The day of individual happiness has passed

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

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

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.