The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

Each soul is potentially divine.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

What is to give light must endure burning.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.