Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is. As a matter of fact, with a firm enough…

- Margaret Halsey

The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.

- Margaret Halsey

Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had.

- Margaret Halsey

I'd like somebody to breed a male, genus homo, who could go and fetch a 12" x 8" black suède purse lying in the middle of a white bedspread and not c…

- Margaret Halsey

Democracy makes many taxing demands on its practitioners, but suspension of the intelligence is not one of them.

- Margaret Halsey

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at al…

- Margaret Halsey

If you embark on a project as magnificent in concept as the brotherhood of man, it is foolish not to anticipate difficulties of proportionate magnifi…

- Margaret Halsey

Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.

- Margaret Halsey

There are dozens of ways of failing to make money. It is one thing to fail to make money because your single talent happens to be a flair amounting t…

- Margaret Halsey