We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

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

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

My art and profession is to live.

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

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Live your life and forget your age.

I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

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.

Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.