People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

And the sooner you do the right thing, the better. You get it over with, and you don’t have to worry about it anymore. But who does that in real life?

Why don't they teach logic at these schools?

Ah, I'm a woman that's been clear around the world in my rocking chair, and I tell you we all get surprises now and then.

Man can change his conditions by changing his words.

... Nine-year-old boys usually turn ten at some point. It's the nineteen-year-olds who have difficulty turning twenty.

The real truths are those that can be invented.

It's easier to discredit the science than to say that climate change is a genuine issue but we don't want to do anything about it.

What I've learnt is never to work with the person you are in a relationship with because sometimes you need a break.

There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday.