I am not young enough to know everything.

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

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

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.

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

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

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.

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

Sometimes - history needs a push.