A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

Time is the best killer.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

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

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.

Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.