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

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

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

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.