"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again."

"We can forgive you for killing our sons. But we will never forgive you for making us kill yours."

"Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement."

"I am society's child, this is how they made me, and now I'm saying what's on my mind and they dont want that. This is what you made me America."

"The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing --- and then they marry him."

"Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought."

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."

"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

"A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last."

"She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel."