“For who ever lived totally as they wanted to; who ever, if they have time to think about it, dies wholly satisfied? And those who remain know it.”

“Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.”

“There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.”

“Worry less about what other people think about you and more about what you think about them.”

“I am an ordinary person but carried to extremes.”

“If you put a woman in a man's position she will be more efficient but no more kind.”

“There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.”

“Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth left to itself it sweeps in like the tide.”

“Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them.”

“Books fashion nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.”

“For who ever lived totally as they wanted to; who ever, if they have time to think about it, dies wholly satisfied? And those who remain know it.”