You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.
Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.
When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else… you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.
It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.
There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.
I could never be content to take my place 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.
We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.
Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.
He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person’s stature is as large as one’s own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.
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.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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.
Women are like tea bags. You never know how strong they are until they are in hot water.
When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.
No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
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