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

The past is the best prophet of the future.

My art and profession is to live.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Nature is not human-hearted.

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

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

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 has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

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

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

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.

I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.