Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength

Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.

Think globally, act locally.

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

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Appearances often are deceiving.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

Compassion is the basis of morality.