Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

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

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

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

Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.

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

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

Wisdom begins at the end.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.