"One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late."

"Human nature, dear, is very much the same everywhere. It is more difficult to observe it closely in a city, that is all."

"It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting."

"The sooner one accepts that life is unfair, the happier one will be."

"It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without."