Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

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

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

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

Let silence take you to the core of life.

Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

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.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.