I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.

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

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

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

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.