External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

I’ve always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

Danger is sauce for prayers.

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones – with ingratitude.

Live to the point of tears.

Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker – an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That’s what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed.

Where there is love there is life.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

I am made of memories.

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

I guess I don’t so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Holey? You have the the whole world of ear-related humor before you, you go for holey?

You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.