New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.

Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm!

I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

You will learn that no matter how many pieces your heart was broken into, the world will not stop for you to fix it.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Old age is no place for sissies.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If all people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

They [the Americans] have all a lively faith in the perfectibility of man, they judge that the diffusion of knowledge must necessarily be advantageous, and the consequences of ignorance fatal; they all consider society as a body in a state of improvement, humanity as a changing scene, in which nothing is, or ought to be, permanent; and they admit that what appears to them today to be good, may be superseded by something better tomorrow.

I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely…for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less.

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.

Change, But start slowly, because direction is more important than speed.

The very key to our success has been our ability, foremost among nations, to preserve our lasting values by making change work for us rather than against us.

Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.

If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being.

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

Pain is certain, suffering is optional.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.