Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.
I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.
Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.
Maybe this world is another planet?s hell.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.
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.
No one has ever become poor by giving.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes
Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes