I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

Time is the best killer.

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'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.