I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

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

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

My art and profession is to live.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

We all owe death a life.

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

History has shown there are no invincible armies.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

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

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

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

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.