“Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.”

Success is loving life and daring to live it.

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.

All great achievements require time.

When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness, all the good things.

I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that’s me.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

To those who are given much, much is expected.

The main thing in one’s own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.

I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me, I love you. There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

We need much less than we think we need.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

Woman’s discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.

Only as a child’s awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development.

Inherent to socialism is the absence of choice. If I want to choose my own pretzels or books or iphones, they prevent me – they fine me, or imprison me. And those systems, not infrequently have historically, have developed into systems where there are programs.

Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature

I feel really grateful to the people who encouraged me and helped me develop. Nobody can succeed on their own.

A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.

One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.

As is commonly said, ‘to start anything is simple; to develop it and bring it to a successful culmination takes great effort.’