Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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.
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.
My art and profession is to live.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.
Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.
The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.