No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

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

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible

A man is literally what he thinks.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

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

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.