Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Hard work, disciplined habits, modesty in living, contentment and cheerfulness.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

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

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

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

Life should be great rather than long.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

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

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.