Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.
The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.
Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.