Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

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

We all owe death a life.

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

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

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

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

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.