Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Nature is not human-hearted.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
Sometimes - history needs a push.
It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.
The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.
The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.