If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?
The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes
The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
What goes up must come down.
I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.
The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.
Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.