I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

“A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.”

“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve.”

“Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.” 

“A man imagines a happy marriage as a marriage of love; even if he makes fun of marriages that are without love, or feels sorry for lovers who are without marriage.”

“What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.”

“All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.”

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

“A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.

The only object of liberty is life.” 

I was born to love you with every single beat of my heart. I was born to take care of you every single day of my life.

I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter.

Who wants to live forever?

I guess I've always lived the glamorous life of a star. It 's nothing new - I used to spend down to the last dime.

Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death. The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, not to anticipate the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

Life is like the harp string, if it is strung too tight it won’t play, if it is too loose it hangs, the tension that produces the beautiful sound lies in the middle.