Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

Kindness is always fashionable.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

Time is a very precious gift- so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment.

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

Forethought spares afterthought.

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

She had a highly developed sense of humor which in some lights looked a bit like a sense of justice.

As you walk, hop, hobble, or wheelMeeting people of different kinds, Remember that being handicappedIs only a state of mind

During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.

Tell me truly, I implore-- Is there-- is there balm in Gilead?--tell me--tell me, I implore!

in the city at best one lives the life of others, the life of the shop, the street, the crowd, while in the country one must live one's own life.

The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.

Usually, sprinting is my main source of energy and recovery time because that's how I move.

I became slightly disillusioned, but in a really good way that enabled me to realize that the music was the most important thing, and that the rest of it is total bullshit.

I think it's very repressive for a woman to be constantly told that she has to make films about women to better represent women, but then the reverse is not found.

Stop learning. Start knowing