If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.
Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.
Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
It takes a long time to grow young.
For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.
Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.
What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.
Certain signs precede certain events.
What goes up must come down.
Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life
Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.