How circumscribed is woman's destiny!

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

You may not attain the highest height with one leap but my dear you will reach your destination.

What’s worth living for? what’s worth dying for? what’s completely foolish to pursue?

A friend cannot be ownedThat is plain to seeFriendships must be shared, Just like our friend, Ruby

Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them.

I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution.

My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.

Code as if the next guy to maintain your code is a homicidal maniac who knows where you live.

When there's writing that you really trust, it's very freeing as an artist.

You cannot see the mountain near.

Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today in movements of reserves among countries.