Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

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

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

Time is the best killer.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

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.

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.