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

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

Nature is not human-hearted.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

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

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.

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

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?

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

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.