It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who….

Suppose I was to tell you that it's just beauty that's calling me, the beauty of the far off and unknown, the mystery and spell which lures me, the n….

We talk about the American Dream, and want to tell the world about the American Dream, but what is that Dream, in most cases, but the dream of materi….

The past is the present, isn’t it? It’s the future too..

It's a great game - the pursuit of happiness..

We need above all to learn again to believe in the possibility of nobility of spirit in ourselves..

If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity -- before ….

There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now..

We fought so long against small things that we became small ourselves..

One last word of farewell, dear master and mistress. Whenever you visit my grave, say to yourselves with regret but also happiness in your hearts at ….

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The Grace of God is glue..

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors..

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's abo….

We are where centuries only count as seconds, and after a thousand lives, our eyes begin to open..

I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life..

Why am I afraid to dance, I who love music and rhythm and grace and song and laughter? Why am I afraid to live, I who love life and the beauty of fle….

Happiness hates the timid. So does science..

The only living life is in the past and future - the present is an interlude - strange interlude in which we call on past and future to bear witness ….

You said they had found the secret of happiness because they had never heard that love can be a sin..

None of us can help the things life has done to us. They’re done before you realize it, and once they’re done they make you do other things until at ….

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life..