To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.

Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.

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.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

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

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

There's place and means for every man alive.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

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

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

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