Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

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.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

Live to the point of tears.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.