Integrity is honesty carried through the fibres of the being and the whole mind, into thought as well as action so that the person is complete in honesty. That kind of integrity I put above all else as an essential to leadership.

French is the most beautiful,” he said, “and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other.

It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.

when the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war.

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.

destructiveness comes only when life isn't lived. People who can live their lives don't destroy themselves.