As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.
The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.
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.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
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.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.
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.
To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.
Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.