You always admire what you really don't understand.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.