We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.
Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed
You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
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.
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life
Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men.
Wrinkles are engraved smiles.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
What goes up must come down.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
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.
The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
