The world is governed by opinion.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

May your life preach more loudly than your lips.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands.

All she could see was her demise and it called out a tempting ruse, offering a suffering less potent than what sickened the living.

I knew that I had reached the end of childhood once I realized that adults in my life didn't know anymore than I did.

I adopted a healthier diet. I take at least a tablespoon of apple-cider vinegar a day. It's an old wives' tale, but it really is one of the best things you can put in your mouth.

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman.

You know you don't really need the band or the singer/songwriter in the same way, so you look at everything as part of your palette.

I am very proud and honour-red to be the England manager.

Democracy is always, by nature and constitution, the triumph of mediocrity.

I started taking a basic biology course, and I really loved it. I started asking research questions incessantly. I was drawn very quickly to biology.

Spring comes: the flowers learn their colored shapes.

I mean, Dad's - you know, Dad's friendliest tone was a scream.