The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

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

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

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

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

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.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

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.'

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

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

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.