To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

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

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

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

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

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

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

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

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

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