When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
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.