To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

I am not young enough to know everything.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

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.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

Any place I hang my head is home.

Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.

It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

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.

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

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

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.