We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

Life must be lived as play.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

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

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

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.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.