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.

Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

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

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.

We cannot exist as a little island of well-being in a world where two-thirds of the people go to bed hungry every night.

Work is always an antidote to depression.

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!