Strength that goes wrong is even more dangerous than weakness that goes wrong.
A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now.
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
Life is meant to be lived.
The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain.
Staying aloof is not a solution, it is a cowardly evasion.
Do not be afraid of mistakes, provided you do not make the same one twice.
The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be “damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.”
Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through the fire.
If you care enough about certain things and work for them, I think you are bound to find them in the people you are with.
We must all face an unpalatable fact that we have, too often, a tendency to skim over; we proceed on the assumption that all men want freedom. This is not as true as we would like it to be. There are many men and women who are far happier when they have relinquished their freedom, when someone else guides them, makes their decisions for them, takes the responsibility for them and for their actions. They don’t want to make up their minds. They don’t want to stand on their own feet.
Unless indoctrinated, a child is too logical to understand discrimination.