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

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!

Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

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

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.