Courage is a kind of salvation.
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.
Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
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
To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.
Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.
Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
Certain signs precede certain events.
Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
The past is the best prophet of the future.
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.
Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
Maybe this world is another planet?s hell.
Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.
