The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

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

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

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

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.

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.

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

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.