There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.

To know one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

When one door of happiness closes, another one opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

You can always chase a dream but it will not count if you never catch it.

Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed: for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.

Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new.

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.

High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad.

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.