When one comes to think of it, there are no such things as divine, immutable, or inalienable rights. Rights are things we get when we are strong enough to make good our claim on them.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

And only men could have invented the idea of a king.

luck is distributed at six in the morning

Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.

I can knit. I knit all year, day in, day out. It is my passion, and I rarely knit the same thing twice the same way.

All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?

When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.

I try to just take in every moment of being alive.

Overstraining is the enemy of accomplishment. Calm strength that arises from a deep and inexhaustible source is what brings success.

I'm the only instrument that's got the words, so I've got to be able to get that across.

She was also, by the standards of other people, lost. She would not see it like that. She knew where she was, it was just that everywhere else didn't.