In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.
Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.
The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.
The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.
There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.
Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.
Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.