No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.
When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.
Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
In the end, everything is a gag.
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.
I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.
If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.