The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.