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Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.

Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.

There is one way to handle the ignorant and malicious critic. Ignore him.

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other alternatives.

He has a splendid repertoire of 500 words. Why does he insist on using only 150?

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

His ignorance is encyclopedic.

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.

His ignorance is encyclopedic.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value.

The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.

Stay away from needle drugs. Richard Nixon is the only dope worth shooting.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

Its embarrassing, you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on a Best Sellers List.

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.

I have now reigned about 50 years in victory or peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot. They amount to fourteen.

Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.

The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind, the bond conjoining East and West, the tie of love which blends human hearts.

If a man has ten good qualities and one bad one, to look at the ten and forget the one, and if a man has ten bad qualities and one good one, to look at the one and forget the ten.

If a person commit a crime against you, have not the right to forgive him; but the law must punish him in order to prevent a repetition of that same crime by others, as the pain of the individual is unimportant beside the general welfare of the people.

Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

Great necessities call out great virtues.

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Great necessities call forth great leaders.

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life....Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life....Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.

Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!

It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Fight fire with fire, and all you'll end up with is ashes.

How should they answer?

A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain.

Become aware of internal, subjective subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc., with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hither unconscious and uncontrollable processes

Life is not meaningful to us unless serving an end beyond itself, unless it is of value to someone else.

The course of life in unpredictable, no one can write his autobiography in advance.

Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.