A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them

The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

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

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference