Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance... and courage.

Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.

To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.

I don't mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.

Women sometimes go too far, it's true. But it's only when you go too far that others listen.

To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.

She is off the heart's map and her compass is spinning.

What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human.

There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.

When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.

I don't write my own songs. I don't have time.

Why wouldn't I help? What good reason do I have as a human being with power and a sense of empathy and morality, why wouldn't I do something?

Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.

Youll never know where life is gonna take you. Youll never know where your life is gonna go. But youll never be able to find out if you end it.

They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad

Modest wisdom plucks me from over-credulous haste.