He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

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

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

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

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.

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

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.

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!

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.