I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

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!

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?

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

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.