We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.
Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.
All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up - that growing is an ever ongoing process.
We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!
It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.
Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.
Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.
Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.