As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold the person down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

Don't ever wear artistic jewellery; it wrecks a woman's reputation.

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

I have reached a point in my life where I understand the pain and the challenges; and my attitude is one of standing up with open arms to meet them all.

If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.

The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

Of all the musical instruments the human voice is the most beautiful, for it is made by God.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops, stars, molecules, microscopic entities all come in communities. The singular cannot in reality exist.

Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark that you always carry in your heart.

Every woman has the right to be beautiful.

Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.

Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.

Strange, when you ask anyone's advice you see yourself what is right.

After all, God made man and then said: I can do better than that -- and made woman.