The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often 'Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.'

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

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

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

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.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

History is the devil's scripture.

Pain don't hurt.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.