People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion

Where there is love there is life.

You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

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.

There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

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

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

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

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

We think too much and feel too little.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes

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