What goes up must come down.

Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

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.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

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

The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

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

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

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

The future is the shape of things to come.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose