Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

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.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

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

Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

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

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.