Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
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.
A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.