The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.
I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.
Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.
When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
I have no desire to make windows into mens souls
The lie is a condition of life.
To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.
Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
What's done can't be undone.
The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.
Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.