I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend to it with consideration.

... the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed.

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasant waters for our old age.

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.

The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

The artist's business is to take sorrow when it comes. The depth and capacity of his reception is the measure of his art; and when he turns his back on his own suffering, he denies the very laws of his being and closes the door on everything that can ever make him great.