Ability is of little account without opportunity.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around you own.

Never complain. Never explain.

I used to be Snow White -- but I drifted.

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you "come to terms with" only to discover that they are still there. The real questions refuse to be placated. They barge into your life at the times when it seems most important for them to stay away. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately, the ones that reveal their true natures slowly, reluctantly, most often against your will.