If we are not free, no one will respect us.

Hard work, disciplined habits, modesty in living, contentment and cheerfulness.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'

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.

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

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

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

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