"Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included."

"Revolutions are the locomotives of history."

"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people."

"The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society."

"True wealth is not measured in gold, but in the belief that every ending is merely a new beginning in disguise."

"Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency."

"We incorporated new tastes and flavors into our kids' diets from a very early age, which helped to develop their palates and prevented them from becoming picky eaters. We don't buy junk food and give them options of fresh fruit, yogurt, raw almonds, or dried whole grain cereals for snack time."

"If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces."