Nature doesn't make long speeches.
How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.
Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.
It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the strange and miraculous would not occur and all things would be equal.
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.
Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
Do it. Try it. Fix it.
My son is everything to me. He's the reason why I get up and I work out the way I work out and train the way that I train. He changed everything about me, so he was a blessing.
I would say Will came at a time in my life where he saw beauty in me that I didn't see in myself at the time. And, you know, he saw a diamond in the rough and kind of, picked me up and blew off all the dust and said, 'I'm telling you, I'm going to make you shine, girl. '