One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

I can't wait to figure out what is wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Last year I sang for the Queen of England, met the president of the United States, and got an Emmy and a star on The Walk of Fame. And what did I do? I was just being myself.

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.