Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

History has shown there are no invincible armies.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

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.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

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

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

The future is the shape of things to come.