“Laughter is good for thinking because when people laugh, it is easier for them to admit new ideas to their minds.”
“Age measures life in years, but it’s the life in those years that contributes most..”
“I asked for strength, and God gave me difficulties to make me strong. I asked for wisdom, and God gave me problems to learn to solve. I asked for prosperity, and God gave me a brain and brawn to work. I asked for courage, and God gave me dangers to overcome. I asked for love, and God gave me people to help. I asked for favors, and God gave me opportunities. I received nothing I wanted. I received everything I needed.”
“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
“If you put fences around people, you get sheep.”
“The day will come when men will recognise women as their peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.”
“Sometimes the poorest woman leaves her children the richest inheritance.”
“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”
“Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.”
“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
