We know that we can do what men can do, but we still don't know that men can do what women can do. That's absolutely crucial. We can't go on doing two jobs.

More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

Let me listen to me and not to them.

For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.

... there was the first Balkan war and the second Balkan war and then there was the first world war. It is extraordinary how having done a thing once you have to do it again, there is the pleasure of coincidence and there is the pleasure of repetition, and so there is the second world war, and in between there was the Abyssinian war and the Spanish civil war.

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.