Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
Easy come, easy go. . . "Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing" schemes don't work, they are just not logical
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the throne?
The best team does not always win, it's the team that plays the best.
In my early days I was a sepia Hedy Lamarr. Now I'm black and a woman, singing my own way.
The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.
Nothing could be left to chance, because chance, after all, can be dangerous. But what I didn't realize all that time, what I missed all along, is that chance is everywhere. It's also what life is made of. It's all around us, but most of the time we never see it working.