There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.

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

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

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

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

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

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

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

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

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

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.