A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.
If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.
Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.
Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.
The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.
You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.
In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.
