Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

Pain don't hurt.

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

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!

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

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

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

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

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.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child