Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

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

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.