Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

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

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

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

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

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.

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

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.