Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed
Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.
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.
Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.
Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour
Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.
There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...
Life is too short for long-term grudges.
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!
When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.
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.
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
