Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Effective action is always unjust.

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.