"The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing."

"Look whoa€?s standing if you please, a€?though you tried to bring me to my knees."

"In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith."

"We've kept the good old vices and labored to invent a few, With cake in vulgar surplus we can have it, and eat it too"

"Evolution crawls to imperfection. It ends in extinction."

"The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythicals beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out."

"What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?"

"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason."

"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."

"Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion."

"The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw."

"Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together."