The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
To try to be better is to be better.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.