I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

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

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.