Although reality can sometimes corrupt the fairy tale and alter our ambitions, some things remain unalterable. From the richest to the poorest, we start and end with family.

The smallest world on earth is that which is created by a closed mind.

You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.

The American educational psychologist Patricia Alexander has expressed the view that fear paralyses and curiosity empowers. Accordingly, she reasons, we should always be more interested than afraid.

After I was diagnosed with celiac disease, I said yes to food, with great enthusiasm. . . . I vowed to taste everything I could eat, rather than focusing on what I could not.

It's not a good idea to cut back indiscriminately on what you read. The reason is that reading can save you time, because it gives you the opportunity to learn from other people's experience.

Thus far the chief purpose of our military establishment has been to win wars. From now on its chief purpose must be to avert them. It can have almost no other useful purpose.

[Personal] industry must be faint and languid, which is not excited by the sense of personal interest.

In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.

You don't need numbers; you need passion, and this is proven by the history of the world!

I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl: I want to rule the world.