I mean that success has come early. And that is dangerous. Always dangerous.

Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

The longer the time that has elapsed, the more things fall into proportion. One sees them in their true relationship to one another.

Thought is yours only. Nobody can alter or influence the use you mean to make of it.

The eye is diverted from the real business, it is caught by the spectacular action that means nothing--nothing at all.

Clocks and calendars do not exist to remind us of the Time we've forgotten but to regulate our relations with others and indeed all of society, and this is how we use them.

Maybe some type of pain is inevitable, but still, that doesn’t mean that you should always let it control your emotions.

I am proud. It will get me into trouble someday, but today it makes me brave

But remember the overall lesson, that your love for others, and their love for you, that the increase of love in life itself around you, is what matters.

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends-you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it that's the time to hold your tongue.

The executioner is, I believe, very expert; and my neck is very slender

I've never been particularly maternal.

it's spring when the world is puddle-wonderful

Families don't have to match. You don't have to look like someone else to love them.

If everybody that had two cars had a Prius instead of an SUV, we wouldn't be in the Middle East right now.