My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.