Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

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

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.

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

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

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

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

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

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

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up - that growing is an ever ongoing process.

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

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

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.