I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

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.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

What goes up must come down.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

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

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.