I do not lack the courage to think a thought whole.

When you say 'Yes' or promise something, you can very easily deceive yourself and others also, as if you had already done what you promised. It is easy to think that by making a promise you have at least done part of what you promised to do, as if the promise itself were something of value. Not at all! In fact, when you do not do what you promise, it is a long way back to the truth.

Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts.

What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is.

To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.

It is impossible to exist without passion

What the philosophers have to say about reality is often as disappointing as a sign you see in a shop window, which reads Pressing Done Here. If you brought your clothes in to be pressed, you would be fooled: for the sign is only for sale.