Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

My art and profession is to live.

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

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

Maybe this world is another planet?s hell.