When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.
The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.
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
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
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.
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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!
