When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

Nature is not human-hearted.

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

We all owe death a life.

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

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

It takes a long time to grow young.

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.