Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is

Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

What we love to do we find time to do.

Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.

When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.

The woman of her dreams went into her arms without shame or awkwardness as the boldness of Love overcame them both.

Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.

If you are truly wise, you love life very deeply. You love the things in your life, transient though they may be.

If we kill off the wild, then we are killing a part of our souls.

Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink.

I am a hell raiser. I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.

You only get one shot at a second chance.

I love songs. Songs are my favorite things.

No great president in the USA has been primarily a me-first person.

I don't believe that economic and cultural interaction automatically brings greater peace and understanding, although it may help in that regard.