To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

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

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

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

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

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.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.