The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

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.

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

Diamonds are a girls best friend.

The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

My art and profession is to live.

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.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

We all owe death a life.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Any place I hang my head is home.

Live simply so others may simply live.

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

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.