We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing, is not worthy of living.

He who is continually changing his point of view sees more, and more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the same pedestal; however lofty and well-placed that pedestal may be.

Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.

It takes a great man to make a great listener

The power of writing is phenomenal.

Most women have low standards. All they strive for is a highly paid man.

Patriotism is about a desire for progress, not a yearning for repetition.

I believe every person has the ability to achieve something important and with that in mind I regard everyone as special.

The absence of war is not peace.

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I'm finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden.

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

Embrace your curves and who you are. I feel proud if young girls look up to me and say, "I'm curvy, and I'm proud of it now".

There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.

It takes a truly cool girl to pull off short-shorts and rain boots.