My art and profession is to live.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough

Time is the best killer.

Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

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

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

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.