Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

In the end, everything is a gag.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

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

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Diamonds are a girls best friend.

The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

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

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.

All of us are products of our childhood.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

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

Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.