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.
I'm not sure I'm adult yet.
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
Courage is a kind of salvation.
One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.
Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.
There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.
Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.
Sometimes - history needs a push.
The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.
People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion
Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
