Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

A man is literally what he thinks.

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

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

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

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.