History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.
Wrinkles are engraved smiles.
I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.
There's place and means for every man alive.
Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.
All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.
I want to feel my life while I'm in it.
There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
Diamonds are a girls best friend.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
We think too much and feel too little.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.