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

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

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!

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

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

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

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

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.

History has shown there are no invincible armies.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

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

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.