Life is too short for long-term grudges.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

We think too much and feel too little.

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

Certain signs precede certain events.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

Life's a journey, not a destination.

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

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

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties