Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

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

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

The future is the shape of things to come.

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.

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.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.