Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.

The individuals who seem to us most outstanding, who are honored with the name of genius, are those who have proposed to enact the fate of all humanity in their personal existences.

One can hardly tell women that washing up saucepans is their divine mission, [so] they are told that bringing up children is their divine mission. But the way things are in the world, bringing up children has a great deal in common with washing up saucepans.

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.

She offered her mouth to him, as if enchanted. A Persian princess, a little Indian, a fox, a morning glory, a lovely wisteria--it always pleased them when you told them they looked like something, like something else.

Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.