All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up - that growing is an ever ongoing process.
Hard work, disciplined habits, modesty in living, contentment and cheerfulness.
To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
The future is the shape of things to come.
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose
You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.
I'm not sure I'm adult yet.
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
We think too much and feel too little.
The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.