The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

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.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.

I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

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

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.