I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

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

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour

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.

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

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

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

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

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.