Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

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

The future is the shape of things to come.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

Maybe this world is another planet?s hell.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.