We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

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

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

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 like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes

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.

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included

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