Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

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

Maybe this world is another planet?s hell.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

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

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.

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

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.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

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

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

Time is the best killer.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

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

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.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.