We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
Nature is not human-hearted.
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.
If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.
For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.
Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.
The way to know life is to love many things.
The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.
You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!