The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.
I am not young enough to know everything.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child
Old age is by nature rather talkative.
Live your life and forget your age.
All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
My life didn't please me, so I created my life.
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.