We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.

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.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday.

A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness.

One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men.

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

Though face and form alter with the years, I hold fast to the pearl of my mind.

Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, if my family wasn't with me and didn't support me, it would be really tough.

It is easier to bridge the oceans that lie between continents than it is to bridge the gap between individuals or the peoples.

I just write... if it's really good, it's going on the record. If it's average, it's going in the trash.

Nothing's lost forever.