Pain don't hurt.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.

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.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

Maybe this world is another planet?s hell.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.