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.