Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

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

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

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

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?

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.

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.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

Life should be great rather than long.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

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

Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

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

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

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

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

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