Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.
Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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.
Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.
We think too much and feel too little.
We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.
If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.
The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
If I get married, I want to be very married.
Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.
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.
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.
