People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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.
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.
This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
First, then, God, being all-just, wishes to do justice; being all-wise, knows what justice is; being all-powerful, can do justice. Why then injustice?
The more I see, the less I know for sure.
The less you know, the more you believe.
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.