The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

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

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

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

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

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

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

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

What goes up must come down.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

We all owe death a life.

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.