Maybe selflessness was only selfishness on another level.

Most people do not see the world as it is. They see it as they are

She sat still, trying to hush her secret heart.

That roads are for journeys, ma'am, not destinations

When a woman who has much to say says nothing, her silence can be deafening.

If love was a choice, who would ever choose such exquisite pain?

Perhaps, she had dreamed, she would teach some future King, shaping his child mind for a new and better world.

Change from despair to joy he made her extremely beautiful.

The chains had fallen from her leg, but not from her mind.

Was she insane?! She would lose her head before she was 20!

She had become so much more accustomed to hard work and opposition than to adulation that the only emotion she had felt had been one of acute discomfort.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too?

We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny.

The invasions are totally unacceptable and should be stopped forthwith by whoever is doing it.

The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.

Let the fame calm down first and then do something. I don't act on emotion, I don't spend on impulse.

Happiness comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way that's consistent with those beliefs.

I am fevered with the sunset, I am fretful with the bay, For the wander-thirst is on me And my soul is in Cathay.

I never could get a proper job.

Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live!