Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

We think too much and feel too little.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.

The future is the shape of things to come.

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.

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn

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

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