Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
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.
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
There's no advantage to hurrying through life.
If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.
Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties
