Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.

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.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

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

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

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

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!

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

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

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.