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

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

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

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

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

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

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.