Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.

From the beginning, from the age of Adam to the time of kingship: from the powerful, pardon: from the poor, sins.

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

The baby's life is never willfully destroyed because the mother's life is in danger.

What do we say to the Lord of Death?" "Not today.

I think that everyone has the right to fall in love at any age. But in life you have to learn how to control your emotions. You must know self-discipline.

Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.

You don't climb a mountain in leaps and bounds, but by taking it slowly.

World power means nothing. Only the unsayable, jeweled inner life matters.

I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it.