"There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife."

"Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount."

"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there."

"Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes.' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'"

"Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts."

"They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men."

"Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation."

"The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood."

"Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought."

"Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners."

"The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector."

"Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place."