Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

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

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.