All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.

Assassination on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.

Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.

I don't. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.