Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

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

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.

It takes a long time to grow young.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

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

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.