Let us be brave in the face of adversity.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Whom they have injured they also hate.

Add each day something to fortify you against poverty and death.

I am giving birth. I am midwife to myself. Now is a new life full of possibilities. I must be strong like a child.

If I were not to put my arms out

Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world

I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. All I want is the freedom to be myself.

Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs

Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe,—but to feel the life in you down all the fibres of being, passionately and joyfully.

Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, these three, are in a class by themselves among the great mathematicians, and it is not for ordinary mortals to attempt to range them in order of merit.

You want to see women your own age in films.

I personally have a background of many days on end of confusion, understimulation, overstimulation, and uncomfortableness with the world around me.

My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn't accessible.