We only understand that which already is within us.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

When there is fear, there is no trust.

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings.

I grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and my relationship with the piano has been going on for about 38 years.

Truth is the right designation of God.

People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe.

I still look like a duck.

You cannot have a learning organisation without a shared vision...A shared vision provides a compass to keep learning on course when stress develops.

I'm a believer of destiny and I believe I'm destiny's child. I've seen the highs and I've seen the lows and I believe things happen for a reason and always for the best.

The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control.