You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.

If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else.

Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.

In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key.

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.