Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

I think, therefore I am.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

You don't become what you want, you become what you believe

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

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

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

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

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

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