The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

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

What goes up must come down.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.

The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Any place I hang my head is home.

The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.

Maybe this world is another planet?s hell.

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.