The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Live simply so others may simply live.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

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

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

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

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

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

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

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

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.