Sorrow is brief but joy is endless

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

Even the weak become strong when they are united.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

At heart we are all powerful, beautiful, and capable of changing the world with our bare hands.

If as an adult I have scolded and then silenced the child within me, I contend that I am neither an adult nor a child. Rather, I am just plain ignorant.

... nothing that happened could ever hurt the most important part of her, nothing that happened outside herself could ever make her less than what God had meant for her to be.

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.

Not all debt is bad. From time to time we should get into debt when there's a good reason for that.

You throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it.

It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.

My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had convinced me that I was not cut out to be a wife.

You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it's getting raised regardless.