People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.

History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The grades become too important, the competition too frantic, the fear of disappointing those who believe in you turns into an overwhelming nightmare.

A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one's resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination; how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.

The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.

Every rule in the book can be broken, except one - be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.

Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.