Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

Don't be concerned others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

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.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

Maybe this world is another planet?s hell.

Live to the point of tears.

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

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.

I restore myself when I'm alone.