Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

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

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

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.

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

In the end, everything is a gag.

It takes a long time to grow young.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

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

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

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.

The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.

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