Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

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

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

I can't wait to figure out what is wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

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.

The future is the shape of things to come.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

There's place and means for every man alive.

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

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.

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

To do a great right do a little wrong.