I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Sometimes - history needs a push.
It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.
If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
Don't be concerned others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others.
Life is a journey, not a destination.
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
There's no advantage to hurrying through life.
Hard work, disciplined habits, modesty in living, contentment and cheerfulness.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
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.
I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.
If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.