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.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch -- what make you go beyond the norm.

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

There is a lot more to life than just struggling to make money.

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because of the surrounding circumstances, these talents will be still-born.