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

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.

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.

Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts.

His eyes widened just a bit, his lips flexed. I realized he was trying not to laugh. I hate it when people find my threats amusing.

Everyone desires significance but not everyone is ready to go through the process of being ‘pregnant’ with the requirements that would make them to be significant.

You're the only person who means anything to me in the whole world, you're all I've got...""Well then you've got nothin.

Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one.

Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.

No machine can wind a better sounding or tighter wind than a well trained person.

You either believe in the Constitution, or you don't.

Maybe it's your obligation to use your celebrity for more than just your new BMW. I use mine to make people smile.