Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

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

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!

The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Each soul is potentially divine.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

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

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.