"Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies."

"It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion it is a joy of every moment."

"It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time."

"When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich."

"Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft."

"To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking."

"America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people."

"The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing."