Parenting, at its best, comes as naturally as laughter. It is automatic, involuntary, unconditional love.
Envy is an insult to oneself.
Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force.
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
Jealousy's eyes are green.
Like lambs to the slaughter.
God hates those who praise themselves.
Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.
Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Life's a very funny proposition, after all.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Art is a kind of illness.
Sometimes when you have everything, you can't really tell what matters.
I have accepted fear as a part of life-specifically the fear of change. ... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ...
There is a time when we must firmly choose the course we will follow, or the relentless drift of events will make the decision for us.
Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.
I never forgive, but I always forget.
Do not think of all your anxieties, you will only make yourself ill.
Be like a postage stamp-stick to one thing until you get there.
Husbands don't really count ... in the miracle of birth.