The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.
If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.
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.
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.
Life is a journey, not a destination.
Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air
Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.
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.
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.
If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
The less you know, the more you believe.
The way to know life is to love many things.