People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

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

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

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.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

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

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

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

Time is the best killer.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

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

The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.