I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.

Rome is the city above all cities which loses most of its meaning to those who do not bring to it some historical sense, a decent knowledge of art, and a good amount of time. Rome therefore is particularly disturbing to an American.

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.