It seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters.

Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires.

The worst enemy is one whose doctrines are founded in hate and are thus beyond debate.

Trust is won not given.

So many of man's actions appear to have no immediate consequence but, concealed, do their work until finally all catches up and forms a complex web of cause and effect.

To be desired by those who are themselves highly desirable is in itself an aphrodisiac.

This may be the very nature of love, a passion as fickle as the sea, full of certainty when the object of desire is absent, yet dubious when confronted again with the lover's presence.

Believe, my child. Faith is the food of survival.

A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself, and to deny knowledge of oneself is to stumble through life as handicapped as the blind mute.

We cannot choose the times we live in. Just as, sometimes, we cannot choose whom we love.

Intelligence is power; it is the flame behind the spark of intrigue. Find out all the facts and stamp out the fire. Demystify.

When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.

Life is a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved.

Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.

Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.

I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened.

I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'

As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist.

When I'm shooting on location, you get ideas on the spot - new angles. You make not major changes but important modifications, that you can't do on a set. I do that because you have to be economical.

Our primary relationship is really with ourselves. Our relationships with other people constantly reflect exactly where we are in the process.