Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Once you label me you negate me.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

The day of individual happiness has passed

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.