Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
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.
Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
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.
I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Actors are one family over the entire world.
A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
Happiness is not a goal it is a by-product.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
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