We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

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

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

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.

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

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

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

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one