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

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

It takes a long time to grow young.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

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

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

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

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

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