Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

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

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!

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

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

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

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

History is the devil's scripture.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.

Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.