A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

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

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

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

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often 'Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.'

We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

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

We think too much and feel too little.