Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.

It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.

if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.

All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.

She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.

Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end.

To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless against evil, kind against cruelty

Man can only use money to buy man-made goods.

Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

You shouldn't wallow in self-pity. But it's OK to put your feet in it and swish them around a little.

He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.

Hate is able to provoke disorders, to ruin a social organization, to cast a country into a period of bloody revolutions; but it produces nothing.

The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them

I want my words to survive translation.

Having women work with men is like having a grizzly bear work with salmon . . . dipped in honey.

I'm very tough on myself. I definitely look at the negative too much.