Destiny is simply the relentless logic of each day we live.

There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon.

All the evil in the world is the fault of the self-styled pure in heart, a result of their eagerness to unearth secrets and expose them to the light of the sun.

A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.

There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people.

To win a woman in the first place you must please her, then undress her, and then somehow get her clothes back on her, finally, so that she will let you leave her, you've got to antagonise her.

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.