The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.
He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.
One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
Nature is not human-hearted.
Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.
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.
Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
It takes a long time to grow young.
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.