Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

Diamonds are a girls best friend.

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.

In the end, everything is a gag.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.