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

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

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

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

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

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

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

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

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

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

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough