The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.

You have to leave room in life to dream.

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

No one can dub you with dignity. That's yours to claim.

Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends.

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.

It does make a difference what you call things.

Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in.

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.

You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch — what make you go beyond the norm.

A woman, especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Love isn't blind; it's only love that sees.

The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle.

A little more matriarchy is what the world needs, and I know it. Period. Paragraph.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

Our biggest problem as human beings is not knowing that we don't know.

Being an old maid is like death by drowning -- really a delightful sensation after you have ceased struggling.