To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it makes this more difficult for us.

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.

I believe that to be kept from evil is better than to be healed from sickness.

All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.

Just because you're breathing, doesn't mean you're alive.

Miss Howard: Like a good detective story myself. Lots of nonsense written, though. Criminal discovered in last Chapter. Everyone dumbfounded. Real crime - you'd know at once.

This is our world, and we must make the best of it.

There is an interview given by [ Jean-Paul] Sartre in the USA where he is asked what the future of French literature is, and he replies that the next great writer of the future is [Albert] Camus.

We've got clouds and rain, just like in Seattle .. but Sao Paulo is better.

When I was secretary of state, we actually increased American exports globally 30 percent. We increased them to China 50 percent.

When I was young I was one of those kids that got pulled onstage at a Green Day concert. That was pretty awesome.

You know when you first get rich, and you, like, just buy everything that you see? I did that for several years. And I have sheds full of things, maybe sometimes nine copies of the same thing.