Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

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

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

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.

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

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

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

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

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

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.