The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.
I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.
The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
To forgive is not just to be altruistic.
Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.
Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Courage is a kind of salvation.
Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
