The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

What goes up must come down.

Diamonds are a girls best friend.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

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

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

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.

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

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.

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

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.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.