The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective watchfulness, half animal, half angelic, which is the quality of motherhood.

A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.

Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.