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

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

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

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

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

What goes up must come down.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

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

A life not lived for others is not a life.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

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