Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

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

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

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

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

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

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

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.

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

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

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

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.