No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

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

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

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?

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

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

History has shown there are no invincible armies.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.