We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.

I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.

When everything has to be right, something isn't.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

Show love, compassion, protection & generosity to those who depend on you – in fact, to everyone.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Only married people understand you can be miserable and happy at the same time.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.