We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Common sense is not so common.
In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.
It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.
It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.
Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.
We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others
The day of individual happiness has passed
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
