Sarah Bernhardt

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.

The partnership of mind and matter is one which has existed since the beginning of time and cannot be dissolved.

There is nothing ever wrong with ability, ambition, achievement; but they can easily be wronged by being used to bad ends.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

A lot of people always question, ‘What else can she do, what else can she do?’ And I’m going to show you

What I have never been afraid of is to be a little silly, and you can engage people that way!

Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.

At this very moment, you may be saying to yourself that you have any number of admirable qualities. You are a loyal friend, a caring person, someone who is smart, dependable, fun to be around. That’s wonderful, and I’m happy for you, but let me ask you this: are you being any of those things to yourself?

When your life is nearly over, you will regret it if you look back and recall too many nights when you made excuses instead of making love.

A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.

I ask you to go back and read them over again, and this time answer “Self-acceptance was the foundation of the happiest time in your life and it was the engine that powered the train.

That is what we are put in the world for, to get experience and to help others get it. It is the one thing no one can take away from us.

I don’t like to read books. They muss up my mind.