Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.