Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

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

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

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

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

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

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

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

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.

A life not lived for others is not a life.

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

History is the devil's scripture.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.