Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

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

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

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.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

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

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

I am not young enough to know everything.

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

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.