There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Life should be great rather than long.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

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

The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.

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

Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.

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