"I can resist everything except temptation."

"Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit but the highest form of intelligence."

"To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul."

"Every woman is a rebel."

"Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them."

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."