No one has ever become poor by giving.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

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

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

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

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

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

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

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

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

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

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.