Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

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.

I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of.

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

And rely on Him with 100 percent of your faith for 100 percent of your life throughout 100 percent of your tomorrows. He will give you a peace no thief can ever steal.

Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.

Everyone of our thoughts, good or bad, becomes concrete, materializes, and becomes in short a reality.

With every single role, you're not going to get a role unless you invest your whole heart into it.

Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks.

Anything that can be measured can be improved

A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor of the reckless mob move not.

Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.