The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up - that growing is an ever ongoing process.

Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Diamonds are a girls best friend.

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

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

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

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

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

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

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'

I restore myself when I'm alone.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

There's place and means for every man alive.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.