Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people.
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thi...
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
Actors are one family over the entire world.
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at mo...
When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot in it and hang on.
A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and la...