The aim of education is to strengthen and multiply the powers and activities of the mind rather than to increase its possessions.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is

Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

What we love to do we find time to do.

Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.

When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.

The exact symptom of sad people is their innocence and honesty but these kind of people always at the top of success...

DREAMS are the ones that WAKE you, SHAKE you and make YOU..........................................

In my beginning is my end.

When I write, what I long for is not more realism or fiction but more courage. That's what I always find myself short on and what I have to struggle to achieve in order that the work might live.

It costs $2,500 to purchase a song and I know from experience that I like to score with songs.

Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.

If I could persuade myself that I could find Him in a Himalayan cave I would proceed there immediately.

Sometimes God leads us to a place where we have nowhere to turn but to Him; our only option is to trust Him.

That's the paradox. Since we can spend as long as we want, we worked so much faster than we used to. I think that when you don't have the pressure anymore, the ideas come faster.

The hardest instruments for women to play are bass and drums. Drums because of the physicality needed and bass just because its heavy and it's not an easy instrument to play.