The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.

Time is the best killer.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

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

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Certain signs precede certain events.

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

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

History is the devil's scripture.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

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

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