Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

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

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

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

If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

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

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

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

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.