A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.
Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Criticize the act, not the person.
Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.