In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Life's a journey, not a destination.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.