Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

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

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

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

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

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

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

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

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties

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

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.