The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.