The greatest power we have is the power of choice.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence