Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

Be realistic: Plan for a miracle

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

What can't be cured must be endured.

If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.