To think profoundly, to seek and speak truth, to love justice and denounce wrong is to draw upon one's self the ill will of many.

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.

So much can change from one day to the next, but the one thing that always remains the same is God. Stay focused on Him. In God We Trust.

Suddenly watching her feet, so light and precise and mistress of his shuffle, I was in love again.

The number one responsibility for each of us is to change ourselves with hope that others will follow.

So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.

I write about reconciliation, but not as a miracle, as a slow, gradual process of mutual discovery - discovering one another.

The moon is quite a show off given the chance. The stars make a sound when they shine so bright. Water so blue and so black.

There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him.

Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.

I don't try to dance better than anybody but myself.

It was better to live with disappointment and frustration than to live without hope.