A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

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

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

The cure for pain is in the pain.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

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

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

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