Writing only leads to more writing.
I think the fall from the farmer to the operative as great and memorable as that from the man to the farmer.
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
I have more influence now than when I had the power.
If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.
I try to be specific. One thought at a time. Clear. Articulate. And above all, memorable, if you can be. You'd like to write phrases that people can't forget as soon as they read them.
You can't always be a leading lady.
The care of rivers is not a question of rivers but of the human heart.
Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.
I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.
That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
Successful presentations are understandable, memorable, and emotional
One of the memorable moments of my life was when Willard Libby came to Princeton with a little jar full of crystals of barium xenate. A stable compound, looking like common salt, but much heavier. This was the magic of chemistry, to see xenon trapped into a crystal.
Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.
The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
Swift or smooth, broad as the Hudson or narrow enough to scrape your gunwales, every river is a world of its own, unique in pattern and personality. Each mile on a river will take you further from home than a hundred miles on a road.
It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.
If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.
If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.