A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.
I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.
By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
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.
He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.
I am not young enough to know everything.
That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.
The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.
The less you know, the more you believe.
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 has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.