... can life be made undignified by any act of man?

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.

It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.

if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.

All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.

She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.

Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end.

To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless against evil, kind against cruelty

Art manifests itself in paradoxical ways. At times it creates and at times it gets created!

Like walking through a door. Our relationship immediately attained a sepia tone: the past.

I was taught that you can’t expect to be forgiven when you continuously commit the same sin over and over again.

Getting older is a lot of fun. Right up there with chewing glass or putting your hand in a blender.

At the start, I had no idea to go into fashion, because I thought people would think I was stupid. I don't worry about those things anymore.

I have a serious love for clothes, like no other.

As a leader, the most important earthly relationship you can cultivate is your relationship with yourself.

The cardinal maxim is, that any aid to a present bad Bank is the surest mode of preventing the establishment of a future good Bank.

For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor.