The past is the best prophet of the future.

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

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

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

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

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?