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

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

We all owe death a life.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

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

Where there is love there is life.

We think too much and feel too little.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

What goes up must come down.

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

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

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.

In the end, everything is a gag.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

Time is the best killer.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life