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

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

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.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

There's place and means for every man alive.

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.

I can't wait to figure out what is wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be.

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up - that growing is an ever ongoing process.

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

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.