People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

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

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

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

The way to know life is to love many things.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

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

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

The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

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

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Time is the best killer.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.