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

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.

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

When a reserved person once begins to talk, nothing can stop him; and he does not want to have to listen, until he has quite finished his unfamiliar exertion.

Just because you haven't got a home, doesn't make you homeless.andJust because you don't have a heart, doesn't make you heartless.Now, does it?

where love n happiness makes us blind, pain n hurt helps to see truth. So, pain in good.

I had feared that if I opened the floodgates I would drown. But as the waves crashed over me, I was not consumed, I was swept up, washed, my soul blanketed with blessed relief.

A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach; it is philosophy without fear.

...the pepper is beginning to show signs of strain, and tonight should grace a salad. It has been suggested that I am a cannibal to eat my models.

You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.

All the world is believers! They just believe in different absurdities!

I don't have a career, I have a life. Don't think of a career, think about your passion and look for inspiration.

The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority.

You run and you run to catch up to the sun but it's sinking, racing around to come up behind you again.