The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.

All change is not growth as all movement is not forward.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

The sun will rise whether you like it or not, whether you oppose it or not, whether you care about it or not! Some things will happen whatever you think and whatever you feel about them!

I know what the attitudes of the readers are: These are guys who love women and respect women.

So, if we must give a general formula applicable to all kinds of soul, we must describe it as the first actuality [entelechy] of anatural organized body.

Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.

Intelligence is not a competition," she said. "There is plenty to go around, and there are many ways it can be demonstrated.

The tiny fish enjoy themselves in the sea.

All that I see teaches me to thank the Creator for all I cannot see.

All I needed was a friend to lend a guiding hand. But you turned into a lover, and mother what a lover, you wore me out.

Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from God help in the varying needs of life. Prayer is the desire to possess God Himself

The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.