You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

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

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.

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

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

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

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

Where there is love there is life.

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.