The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.
Wrinkles are engraved smiles.
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.
The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.