Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.
Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.
If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.
I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.
Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.
All sport ... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.
To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.
If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
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.
Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
Life is made up of marble and mud.
