I am not sorry, but this has hurt my heart and spirit more than all the other trials, for being forsaken is worse than being killed. (Sept 5, 1881)
It is childish to eat primarily or only to please your tongue.
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
Until you develop the courage to pursue that dream in your heart, you will never reach your true potential.
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open...
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
He shall rule, whom they look not for that dwell upon the earth, and the fowls shall take their flight away together:
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.
Those who are truly grateful are deeply moved by the privilege of living.