There is a dog in every man.
those who despair of life are not long for it.
Whatever class and race divergences exist, top cats are tom cats.
We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.
I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It's wonderful to have someone like that around, you always feel you can count on them. You can go away and come back, you can change your mind and your hairdo and your politics, and when you get through doing all these upsetting things, you look around and there they are, just the way they were, just being.
We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.
Power is the ability not to have to please.
My brother and I have too good a relationship to spoil it by working together.
Only the tango has continued to enjoy undiminished favor for more than twenty years in spite of polishing and refinement. To be sure, it is no pure Negro dance and owes its best qualities to the unusual dance talents of the Spaniards.
He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
Give up the idea that by ruling over others you can do any good to them. But you can do just as much as you can in the case of the plant: you can supply the growing seed with the materials for the making up of its body, bringing to it the earth, the water, the air, that it wants. It will take all that it wants by its own nature, it will assimilate and grow by its own nature.