Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

Live your life and forget your age.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

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

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

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

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

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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

Hard work, disciplined habits, modesty in living, contentment and cheerfulness.