My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow?
The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
The wisest man may be a blind father.
Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
Wits always win, man, in the battle of brain versus brawn.
What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
Woe betide the man who refuses to conform.
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
Man is to man either a god or a wolf.
Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know.
Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.
I'm very proud of being a woman, and as a woman, I don't even like the word 'feminism' because when I hear that word, I associate it with women trying to pretend to be men, and I'm not interested in trying to pretend to be a man. I don't want to embrace manhood; I want to embrace my womanhood.
A woman can laugh and cry in three seconds and it's not weird. But if a man does it, it's very disturbing. The way I'd describe it is like this: I have been allowed inside the house of womanhood, but I feel that they wouldn't let me in any of the interesting rooms.
To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to be manly is to be sensitive to woman.
