"Henry James created more convincing women than Iris Murdoch put together."

"Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view."

"Dreams alone aren't enough to make your belly full."

"Girls should be brought up to be comrades and helpers, not to be dolls. They should take a real and not a visionary share in the welfare of the nation."

"Mere sorrow, which weeps and sits still, is not repentance. Repentance is sorrow converted into action; into a movement toward a new and better life."

"Normally, children learn to gauge rather accurately from the tone of their parent's voice how seriously to take his threats. Of course, they sometimes misjudge and pay the penalty."

"It is one of the great secrets of life that those things which are most worth doing, we do for others."

"In many cases, the more you try to compete, the less competitive you actually are."

"There's nothing sooner dry than women's tears."

"The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other."

"Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him."

"Hate is a wasteful emotion. Most of the people you hate never know it. The others don't care."