Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

Happiness requires the ultimate sacrifice: to give up one's unhappiness.

I never really thought about how when I look at the moon, it's the same moon as Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at.

When women work together, it's a bond unlike any other.

Men can be very stupid. We cease to value what we have until it's gone, and only then do we realize the gold we glimpsed in distant hills pales as dross compared to treasure we had in hand.

[H]e who fears to lose will never win.

Yes, the European model remains superior to that of America and Japan.

Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.

Kindness, quite simply, is the rent we must pay for the space we occupy on this planet.

The law changes and flows like water, and . . . the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.

The first step toward heaven, is to see ourselves near hell.