Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.

Time is the best killer.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

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

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

Live to the point of tears.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

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

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

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

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.