To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden; for simply to know by rote is not to know at all.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is

Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

What we love to do we find time to do.

Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.

When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.

You would not want to be responsible for someone else’s happiness, so please do not hold someone else responsible for yours!

Still, it’s really frustrating me that there doesn’t seem to be anything in my closet that’s appropriate to wear to an exorcism.

When you believe from your heart & soul you can achieve any goal!

Indeed, as a rule, everybody turns out to be somebody else.

There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful - many more.

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

Take a job, do it for ten years and work at it, and you'll succeed. Can I just add, take a job that you enjoy. If you don't enjoy the job, it's going to be a decade of hell.

What you believe to be the truth directly determines your attitude towards yourself and the world, the words you say and the actions you take.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

What could you measure? What would that cost? How fast could you get the results? If you can afford it, try it. If you measure it, it will improve.