"Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied."

"Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death."

"A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass."

"Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members."

"There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth."

"Criminals look at identity theft and say only 1 in 700 criminals gets convicted of it. And they look at check forgery and they know that for every 1,400 forgers arrested, only about 123 get convicted and about 26 go to jail. So the rewards are great, but the risks are very slim. So that's one of the reasons that make it very popular."

"Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge."

"I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot."