The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

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

First, then, God, being all-just, wishes to do justice; being all-wise, knows what justice is; being all-powerful, can do justice. Why then injustice?

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

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

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

The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

My art and profession is to live.

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

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

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

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

love the life you live.live the life you love.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.