Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

In the end, everything is a gag.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

Time is the best killer.

I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.

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

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

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

Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

It takes a long time to grow young.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.