It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

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

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

Take care of the pieces well. The whole will take care of itself.

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

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

The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

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.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.