"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

"Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world."

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

"You must do the things you think you cannot do."

"Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."

"It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself."

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

"I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision."

"Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one."

"A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water."

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway."

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

"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."

"It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death."

"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart"

"No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful."

"We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all."

"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart."

"You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude"

"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art."

"If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault."

"The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself."

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."

"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."

"Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived."

"Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be."

"Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."

"It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself."

"You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give."

"What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?"

"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."

"A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity."

"Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall."

"Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."

"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to sa"

"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life."

"No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war."

"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."

"I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could."

"As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along."

"Don't call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it's not sexist."

"I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday."

"Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?"

"We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together, and if we are to live together we have to talk."

"You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself."

"Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one."

"What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person"

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself."

"The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why."

"You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress."

"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

"Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death."

"There are no have-to's, just choices"

"Never be bored, and you will never be boring."

"In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond."

"Be confident, not certain"

"I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on."

"You always admire what you really don't understand."

"To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending story, the lives of people around me continued to have a certain storybook quality. I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times — The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give."

"I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them."

"If you can develop this ability to see what you look at, to understand its meaning, to readjust your knowledge to this new information, you can continue to learn and to grow as long as you live and you’ll have a wonderful time doing it."

"Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide."

"He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger."

"Absence makes the heart grow fonder."

"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."

"Each of us has... all the time there is. Those years, weeks, hours, are the sands in the glass running swiftly away. To let them drift through our fingers is tragic waste. To use them to the hilt, making them count for something, is the beginning of wisdom."

"No one can make you feel inferior without your permission."

"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."

"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."

"What you don't do can be a destructive force."

"The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with their time. But if you have more projects than you have time for, you are not going to be an unhappy person. This is as much a question of having imagination and curiosity as it is of actually making plans."

"Do whatever comes your way to do as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself. Think as much as possible about other people. Dwell on things that are interesting. 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."

"Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do."

"To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for."

"Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his early thirties had poured out his inexhaustible gift of music, leaving the world richer because he had passed that way. To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success."

"Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down."

"Understanding is a two-way street."

"It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures."

"Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both."

"If you lose money you lose much"

"If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively."

"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."

"Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us love and unquestioned loyalty to the limit of their ability. I doubt, however, if it is good for us to feel assured of this without the accompanying obligation of having to justify this devotion by our behavior."

"There is nothing to fear except fear it's self."

"If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained."

"I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them."

"To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start."

"We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job."

"Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth."

"THE GREATEST GIVE YOU CAN GIVE A CHILD IS AN IMAGINATION"

"Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world."

"The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. . . . You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along."

"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."

"Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present."

"...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others."

"No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within."

"Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge"