Each person must live their life as a model for others.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'

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.

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

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

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Life must be lived as play.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.