Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

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

We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.

Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others.

Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.

Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything.

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.