All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up - that growing is an ever ongoing process.

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

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

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

The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

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

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

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.

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

Life's a journey, not a destination.

Certain signs precede certain events.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

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

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes