The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

In this world we do not see things as they are. We see them as we are, because what we see depends mainly on what we are looking for.

A Cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.

At the end of life, each of us must answer the question, Whose story captured my soul?

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

What we want is clothing we think we can fly in. That's why I opened the show with flying dresses.

Wealth and fame can only be so important in the face of musical magic

When a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all regal powers, he then, in the single person of a man, fights against his own majesty and kingship.

Boarding school is a wicked thing.

I thought about all of us women and how we spend half our lives rebelling against our mothers and the next half rebelling against our daughters.

I'm not going to die. If I'm going to die, it won't be now. So, I'm not going to limit myself. I will keep on going while I have the strength.

Common sense is not an issue in politics--it's an affliction.

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.