Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

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

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

The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Time is the best killer.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.