"Why is youth so short and age so long?"

“I think I'd rather tell the truth and say what I believe in and make people unhappy than sort of pretend to think something else to accommodate them and try to be liked. That's just the way it goes and I don't think I'm any great champion of anything, but if they're going to put me on a show, I'm going to say what I think.”

“I've always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can't tell to an audience. There's a fine line you have to tread because you don't know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.”

“In bad times and in good I've never lost my sense of zest for life.”

“I'm not that interested in what people make of it, or how people consider me. That's nothing to do with me.”

“I try really hard to give my kids as much independence as I can, caring mostly about their character: Are they kind? Generous? Do they work hard?”

“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”

Source : "This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.

“The Bookshop has a thousand books, All colors, hues, and tinges, And every cover is a door That turns on magic hinges.”

“If you admire yourself in the mirror, let it be in fear and not delight, because the only thing that beauty will bring to you is terror of losing it.”

Source : Amelie Nothomb (2007). “Fear and Trembling: A Novel”, p.68, Macmillan