Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
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.
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.
Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.
The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.
When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?
The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes
One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included
I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'
