If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

Life's a journey, not a destination.

Pain don't hurt.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

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

Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

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

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

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

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

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.

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

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

Live to the point of tears.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.