Never be bored, and you will never be boring.
I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don’t make up their minds, someone will do it for them.
Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.
If you can develop this ability to see what you look at, to understand its meaning, to readjust your knowledge to this new information, you can continue to learn and to grow as long as you live and you’ll have a wonderful time doing it.
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.