Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

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

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

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.

My art and profession is to live.

Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.