The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour
True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.
The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
Sometimes - history needs a push.
No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child
Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.
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.
I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.
We think too much and feel too little.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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.
We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.
The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.
Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.