Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

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

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

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

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.

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

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

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

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

Don't be concerned others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.