A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.

Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

I'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel

A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. -Author Unknown As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.