Maybe this world is another planet?s hell.

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

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

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

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

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.

Live your life and forget your age.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.