I restore myself when I'm alone.

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.

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.

History has shown there are no invincible armies.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

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

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

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.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.

Live to the point of tears.