Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
Pain don't hurt.
In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.
Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.
If I get married, I want to be very married.
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.
Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.