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

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

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

Don't be concerned others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.

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

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.

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.

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.

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

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

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