Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

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

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

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

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

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

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

Maybe this world is another planet?s hell.

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

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

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

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.