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

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.