Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

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

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Nature is not human-hearted.

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

The way to know life is to love many things.

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

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

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.