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

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Common sense is not so common.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

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

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

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.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.