The more I see, the less I know for sure.

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

Diamonds are a girls best friend.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.