You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

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.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

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

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

We think too much and feel too little.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

What goes up must come down.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

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

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.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.