No two things are equal. No two people are equal. Nobody can guarantee equal outcomes unless everybody's poor.
No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him.
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.
Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
For many years of my life I thought one came down with a mood just as one comes down with a cold. But slowly I learned that moods are a product of purposeful unconsciousness and can be rectified by the very consciousness one worked so hard to evade.
It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was itself a democracy.
Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education.
Putting on your crown is really like accepting the fact that you are a queen. You're a great woman. Wherever you are in life, just keep on that path, and so for me, sometimes as women, we forget - we forget that about ourselves. So, putting on your crown is sort of reminding yourself that, hey, I'm a queen, and I can do what I want in this life and take it.