Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

Nothing is black or white.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.