Colette

"Hope costs nothing."

"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."

"What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner."

"It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses."

"No one asked you to be happy. Get to work."

"Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."(Casual Chance, 1964)"

"Hope costs nothing."

"Be happy. It's one way of being wise"