Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.

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

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

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

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.