When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

We think too much and feel too little.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

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

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

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

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!