If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human nature for what it is and of wishing to turn men into machines.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.

Governmental regulations all carry coercion to some degree, and even where they don't, they habituate man to expect teaching, guidance and help outside himself, instead of formulating his own.

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.

Language makes infinite use of finite media.

To inquire and to create; these are the grand centres around which all human pursuits revolve, or at least to these objects do they all more or less directly refer.

The more a man acts on his own, the more he develops himself. In large associations he is too prone to become merely an instrument.

If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in.

To judge a man means nothing more than to ask: What content does he give to the form of humanity? What concept should we have of humanity if he were its only representative?

The most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song existing in any known tongue ....perhaps the deepest and loftiest thing the world has to show.

If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that the world will not speak well of you.

If you have the dedication, means and patience to treat your daily struggle, like a step towards success, something bigger will come your way.

Meeting new people is just remembering faces of God we've forgotten.

It is not always possible to do away with negative thinking, but with persistence and practice, one can gain mastery over them so that they do not take the upper hand.

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool

Justice [Sandra Day] O'Connor has been the critical decisive vote on many issues that go to the heart of who we are as a nation.

I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.

My dad was a musician, and that was his first love, and I think probably, to be really honest, it was my first love as well.

If it wasn't because of my high heels, I would still be in Coatzacoalcos with 10 children.

The news makes me sad, so I don't watch it.