I hold in my hands the very soul of a man. What more dare a woman ask of the high gods?

To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another.

I believe half of the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

What is a logical mind?... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified.

Women are cats ... and love to scratch even those they're fond of. Sometimes the more they love them the harder they scratch.

Women are women and can't help themselves.

Every man's first declaration of love is bathos--the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence.

In France the men all live in cafes, the children are all put out to nurse, and the women, saving the respect of mademoiselle -- well, the less said about them the better.

Don't be a genius, my son, it isn't good for anybody.

Children are the root of all evil.... Happy the man who has his quiver empty.

I think love is serious. It's like an invention: sometimes it lies deep down inside you, great and quiet--and at other times it racks you and keeps you from sleeping.

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

Along our chosen paths, we all meet up with demons. We must meet them, and battle them, even when they are nothing but mist in the night.

The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.

I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.

When we meditate with love we go very, very high , above thought, above form. Your love will cause you to have a union.

All the Utopias will come to pass only when we grow wings and all people are converted into angels.

I used to be the kind of person who needed to have a lot of people around. That's where I found my serenity.

You can learn to direct yourself to be peaceful inside regardless of what is happening with your body.

There is a place in God's sun for the youth "farthest down" who has the vision, the determination, and the courage to reach it.

It's every girl's dream to be a cover girl!