People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They want to know what they ought to think.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.

The concept of 'Momism' is male nonsense. It is the refuge of a man seeking excuses for his own lack of virility. I have listened to many women in various countries, and I have never found a woman who willingly 'mothers' her husband. The very idea is repulsive to her. She wants to mother the children while they are young, but never their fathers. True, she may be forced into the role of mother by a man's weaknesses and childishness, and then she accepts the role with dignity and patience, or with anger and impatience, but always with a secret, profound sadness unexpressed and inexpressible.

The only real danger to our country is from within, that we forget our own power to be what we want to be.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.