He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.
A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
Before I speak, I have something important to say.
For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
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.
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.
Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.
If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.
Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.
