Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

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

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

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

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

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

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

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.