Nature is not human-hearted.

The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

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

No one has ever become poor by giving.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

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

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

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

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

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.