Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.

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

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

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

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

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.