It is not the length of life, but the depth.
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
No one has ever become poor by giving.
Within the child lies the fate of the future.
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.
Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.
Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
The future is the shape of things to come.
Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life
Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.