Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

The more we do, the more we can do.

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

I am not afraid... I was born to do this.

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King's daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.

If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

Act, and God will act.

I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

My different personalities leave me in peace now.

We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'

Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

The most simple things can bring the most happiness.

Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.

Home is the nicest word there is.

It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.

We can win respect in the world only if we are strong internally and can banish poverty and unemployment from our country.