I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life

I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

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

A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

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

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

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.

The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

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

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.