Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.
Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge.
Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth; or, to put it another way, we can only grow as long as we are interested.
You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.
The greatest gift you can give a child is an imagination.
This living in a democracy is a problem, isn’t it?
More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat.
We will never have peace without friendship around the world.
The purpose of life afterall is to live it.
It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.
Develop a skin as thick as a rhinoceros hide!
You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.
When it’s better for everyone, it’s better for everyone.
You rarely achieve finality. If you did, life would be over, but as you strive new visions open before you, new possibilities for the satisfaction of living.
Some friends leave footprints in your heart.
A candle can bring light to a dungeon but it can also be used to light a deadly marijuana cigarette.
There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to move forward that brings violent revolution.
About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.
No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick!
Keep us at tasks too hard for us that we may be driven to Thee for strength.