The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Adventure is worthwhile.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Like music, said Peg. Even when it was over, it kept living inside you.

Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.

Don't be afraid of your own power.

To be in a position, at my age, where I am financially independent, I can help develop things, I can promote stuff that I believe in, I can say no a lot and spend time writing - that is a gift.

I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.

I'm one year away from 70 and I've had a good run. I really believe I'm okay.

In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I'm out in front and winning. I don't give a hill of beans for the rest of the game.

Have you noticed," she asked him, "how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips by quiet unnoticed?

I'm tired of people not treating me like the gift that I am.

We now live in a culture of the temporary, in which more and more people are simply giving up on marriage as a public commitment.