The more I see, the less I know for sure.

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

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

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

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

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.

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

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

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

It takes a long time to grow young.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn

Life is too short for long-term grudges.