Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.

I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to do.

Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life.

It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice.

Health can never be divorced from strength.

Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.

I've got news for you. We're gonna win the game. I guarantee it.

There's so much more to a book than just the reading.

In the space of a decade, China and India have emerged as dramatic, dynamic competitors.

I've heard that I'm 'the future of tennis.' But that's all just random stuff.