Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

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

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

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

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

There's place and means for every man alive.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

Any place I hang my head is home.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.