Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

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!

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

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

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

First, then, God, being all-just, wishes to do justice; being all-wise, knows what justice is; being all-powerful, can do justice. Why then injustice?

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

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

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

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.

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

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

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life