In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

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

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.

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

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

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.

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.