I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

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

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

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

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

Any place I hang my head is home.

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

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

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

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 did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

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

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.