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

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

Maybe this world is another planet?s hell.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy

I am not young enough to know everything.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

It takes a long time to grow young.

Certain signs precede certain events.

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

The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.

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

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.