We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.