To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

Where there is love there is life.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

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

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

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

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

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.

The future is the shape of things to come.

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.