It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.
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.
Life is made up of marble and mud.
If I get married, I want to be very married.
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
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.
Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.
This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included
He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.
Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.
