Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Time is the best killer.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

It takes a long time to grow young.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

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

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

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.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

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.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.