The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

Time is the best killer.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

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

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Life should be great rather than long.

Hard work, disciplined habits, modesty in living, contentment and cheerfulness.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

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.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

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

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

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

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.