"It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death."

"Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall."

"Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again."

"I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could."

"Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness."

"It's your life-but only if you make it so."

"Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."

"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence."

"No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful."

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway."

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."

"Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."

"Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived."

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

"Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall."

"Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again."

"I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could."

"Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness."

"It's your life-but only if you make it so."

"Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."