All great achievements require time.

My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

Intelligence is a moral category.

The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.

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

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

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

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

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

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

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.