Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.
To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?
You can have it all. Just not all at once.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
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.
Wrinkles are engraved smiles.
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
