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

Pain don't hurt.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

Certain signs precede certain events.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

Live your life and forget your age.

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

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

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.