Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.

Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.

Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.

Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow.

Love is the divine quality that everywhere produces and restores life. To each and every one of us, it gives the power of working miracles if we will.

We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; She never produces classes.

Nine hundred years of time and space, and I've never met anyone who wasn't important.

When people violate your values, they have excuses for doing so. For instance, they may misconceive your quest for responsiveness as being annoying...

Sometimes life decides that we must also take care of ourselves in other ways and love, the way we perceive it, must reflect only upon us.

Sometimes God will deliver you from the fire, and other times God will make you fireproof.

I came from product design originally - I had been designing dolls for a toy company since I was 16 - so I'm used to working with plastic and different things. I had an innate interest in objects.

Because when I get to heaven, the first face that shall ever gladden my sight will be that of my Savior.

We must continue working for a better world. I want my grandchildren to live in a society with a spirit of independence, a society that puts people before profits and looks after the environment.

Right now is a great time to be a woman in tech, but there's not enough women in tech.

You can't write about a horrible restaurant - if it's a Ma & Pa restaurant no one wants to see you kick Ma & Pa in the chops.

To define an expression is, paradoxically speaking, to explain how to get along without it. To define is to eliminate.