It isn't the common man at all who is important: it's the uncommon man.
Years ago, I thought old age would be dreadful, because I should not be able to do things I would want to do. Now I find there is nothing I want to do after all
Nobody wants me as a Cabinet Minister and they are perfectly right. I am an agitator, not an administrator.
A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.
It is hopeless trying to go forward when you are looking backward.
The only thing the women were after was just the chance to help the world on. But some men were so dreadfully afraid of them that they refused to understand, and talked about 'shrieking sisterhoods' and 'disappointed spinsters' and rubbish of that sort.