The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

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

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

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

Pain don't hurt.

Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

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.

The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.