Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy

Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them

Time is the best killer.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.