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

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

I can't wait to figure out what is wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

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

It takes a long time to grow young.

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

What goes up must come down.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.