The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
Life is too short for long-term grudges.
Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.
All of us are products of our childhood.
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
Live simply so others may simply live.
I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.
I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.
The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes
There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
