Old age is by nature rather talkative.

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.

Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.

The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

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.

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

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

Diamonds are a girls best friend.