Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

Negativity may misguide a person to see daylight as moonlight

You don't have to be big to be great.

Inequalities of Fate very curious. Should like, on this account, to believe in Reincarnation.

If it's not chocolate, it's not breakfast.

We are tired of the pretense that we have special privileges and the reality that we have none; of the fiction that we are queens, and the fact that we are subjects.

That's part of being an artist; you have to be that sensitive.

We cannot all see alike, but we can all do good.

I never believed in God and I will never believe in it.

Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them.

If you shoot a Mime, do you need to use a silencer?