Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Certain signs precede certain events.

Life should be great rather than long.

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.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

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

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

Live to the point of tears.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

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

If I get married, I want to be very married.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.