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

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

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

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

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

History has shown there are no invincible armies.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

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

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

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

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

love the life you live.live the life you love.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

History is the devil's scripture.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

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