No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life
Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every second. Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death; let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fantastic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says. For nothing matters except life.
I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
I am rooted, but I flow.
Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it.
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
Athletes don't have much use for poking around in their childhoods, because, introspection doesn't get you anywhere in a race.
What I did was experiment with a little marijuana like a lot of other people and walked away.
To pick out the wildest and most fantastical odd man alive, and to place your kindness there, is an act so brave and daring as will show the greatness of your spirit and distinguish you in love, as you are in all things else, from womankind.
There seldom is enmity between seasoned old politicians, who know as much as men can of human weakness and human strength.