Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

Life must be lived as play.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

All of us are products of our childhood.

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

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

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

It takes a long time to grow young.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.