Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

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

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

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

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

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

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

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.