If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.

It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the .

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose beethoven's fifth.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.