The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

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.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

The less you know, the more you believe.

I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

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

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

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.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

All of us are products of our childhood.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

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

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.