Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

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

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

Diamonds are a girls best friend.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

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

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

Nature is not human-hearted.

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

First, then, God, being all-just, wishes to do justice; being all-wise, knows what justice is; being all-powerful, can do justice. Why then injustice?