Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

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

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

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

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

Don't be concerned others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others.

The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

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

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.

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

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