"Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death."

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."

"After your death you will be what you were before your birth."

"True wisdom begins when you realize the true master is an eternal student."

"I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy."

"I am the baby in the family, and I always will be. I am actually very happy to have that position. But I still get teased. I don't mind that."

"I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'"

"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it."