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

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

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

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

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

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

It takes a long time to grow young.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

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.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

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.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.