If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

We all owe death a life.

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

Pain don't hurt.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.