I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

Life's a journey, not a destination.

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

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

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

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

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

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

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.