Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

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

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

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

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

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

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.