“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.

A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Every wall is a door.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

I was a tomboy and I didn’t have a bunch of brothers but I always wanted them and so I sort of adopted a few of my great friends to be my brother.

Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and that led to my – it touched me in a way that really led to me opening up my heart, I’ve called it the re-humanisation process.

My mother is a realist, and she’s had biological and adoptive children, and she said it’s no different: No matter what, they’re putting a stranger into your arms. You don’t know them yet.

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.

Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power.

You deny your own values and opinions, and you adopt a personality that isn’t you.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

Adopt and change before any major trends or changes.