Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

I don’t like begging money from producers.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

Work alone is noble.

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

I’d read up on the history of our country and I’d become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.

The little man is still a man.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

A man’s character is his guardian divinity.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.

This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

I think, when you are growing up, you have to pull apart from what your mother wants or needs. You’ve got to go your own way, and that’s what I did.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Man – a being in search of meaning.

I never ask anyone else’s opinion. They don’t count.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

God created man, but I could do better.

Now I do whatever I want.

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don’t want to be a colony in a nation.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China’s Communists.

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That’s the way the mind of man operates.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Being a kid’s not easy. You’re transforming and becoming a human being. At some point, you have everyone taking care of you, and then, all of a sudden, you’re out in the world.