I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

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.

To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

Life is a journey, not a destination.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.