I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

Take a good book to bed with you—books do not snore.

She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.

You can laugh your way into hell but not out.

He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.

Call me a slag. If it means being a strong woman, I'll gladly be that.

Who heeds not the future will find sorrow at hand

For me a photograph is most successful when it doesn't answer all the questions and it leaves something to be desired.

It's very important to know when you're in a pissing match. And it's very important to get out of it as quickly as possible.

I don't think any of us really knows why we're here. But I think we're supposed to believe we're here for a purpose.