Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything.

Coffee, the sober drink, the mighty nourishment of the brain, which unlike other spirits, heightens purity and lucidity; coffee, which clears the clouds of the imagination and their gloomy weight; which illuminates the reality of things suddenly with the flush of truth.

Improvement depends far less upon length of tasks and hours of application than is supposed. Children can take in but a little each day; they are like vases with a narrow neck; you may pour little or pour much, but much will not enter at a time.

You are one of the forces of nature.

The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women.

How beautifully everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds a mother ready to take care of it.

At its starting point in India, the birthplace of races and religions, the womb of the world.