All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

For we walk by faith, not by sight

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Wisdom... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.