By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

My art and profession is to live.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

The less you know, the more you believe.

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

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

The way to know life is to love many things.

Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.