Experience is a question of instinct about life.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world

To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the present and the future are but one moment in the sight of God, in whose sight we should try to live. Time and space, succession and extension, are merely accidental conditions of thought. The imagination can transcend them.

We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.