The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal.

I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.

Conventionality is not morality.

But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

I don't believe any scientific field to be superior to another.

The boy was still looking at him. "Your family?" he asked.Salva shook his head."Me, too, " the boy said. He sighed, and Salva heard that sigh all the way to his heart.

Are you worthy of realizing your dream? If you said yes, there is no short cut. You're going to encounter setback after setback until you realize your dream.

I felt something growing in me that was strong and real.

A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.

Beware in the presence of cats: they never give, they do not even retaliate--they only reply, and purr in doing so.

Fortunately, all it takes for us to be of one mind is some buttercream frosting.

I wasn't there [in U.S] when the city was bombed but it seems to have changed my friends.

I have so often been mistaken that I no longer blush for it

Ayrton Senna was an extraordinary racing driver. His skills, craft, subtlety and courage were of such magnitude that he dwarfed his generation of drivers.