Tolerance of ambiguity is a necessary condition for creativity.
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
Until you develop the courage to pursue that dream in your heart, you will never reach your true potential.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?
what is not true does not exist in this moment.
Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
A homely face does not guarantee a homely character. Appearance is the body, character is the spirit, and the soul bears the most vital qualities.
Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
It may be a man's world, but men are easily controlled by women.