The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

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!

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference

All of us are products of our childhood.

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

I can't wait to figure out what is wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

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

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.

Diamonds are a girls best friend.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

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.