We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
Wrinkles are engraved smiles.
To forgive is not just to be altruistic.
I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.
How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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.
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.
Within the child lies the fate of the future.
Old age is by nature rather talkative.
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.
We think too much and feel too little.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.
Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.
If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.
