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

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

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

Life is a journey, not a destination.

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

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

All of us are products of our childhood.

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

First, then, God, being all-just, wishes to do justice; being all-wise, knows what justice is; being all-powerful, can do justice. Why then injustice?

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Live simply so others may simply live.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.