Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

The world is governed by opinion.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

May your life preach more loudly than your lips.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has its price-tag on.

I do not trust the truth. It shifts into reality.

The only place I want to travel to is the United States Of America from 2008 to 2016. Anywhere else is a horribly dangerous time for women and minorities.

Love comes softly, it cannot be forced...cannot bear the weight of our expectations. Love always comes in the surrender - in the falling.

I'd never really found a place in the outside world, but had stayed away too long to fit in at home.

I've been trying really hard to be more domesticated. It's not in my nature to clean and cook, and so I've been really good about it.

I like the feeling of feeling my feelings.

When we can do nothing else, we can still love, without expecting any reward or change or gratitude.

The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.