"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."
"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."
"No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful."
"You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do."
"You must do the things you think you cannot do."
"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."