When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

In the end, everything is a gag.

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough

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

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

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

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.