There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

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

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision,to the releasing of a trigger.

I think, therefore I am.

You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

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

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.