A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions.

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.

Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.

The final result of too much routine is death in life.

Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.

Success is a great healer.

The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

the only revenge worth having is success.

... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.

There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop.

If you are explaining, you are losing.

It's not easy, you know, hitting balls every day, and, you know, staying really motivated throughout the whole period. It's normal you're going to have ups and downs.

I will say with Lorenzo de Medici that those who do not hope for another life are always dead to this one.

The individual who is mistake-free is also probably sitting around doing nothing. And that is a very big mistake.

My mum used to say to me, 'you can't have fun all the time,' and I used to say, 'why not?'. Why... can't I have fun all the time?

God is the one who saved me. He who believes in God, in His cause and His truth is capable of standing up to the greatest power.

Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.