A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.
Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
Within the child lies the fate of the future.
Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.
When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.
In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.
If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.
As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
