I have always found that each step we take in life is to be regretted - if we once begin to wonder how many other steps might have been possible.

Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we wake, we cry!

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.

Those who have made unhappy marriages walk on stilts, while the happy ones are on a level with the crowd. No one sees 'em!

A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed.

Women may be whole oceans deeper than we are, but they are also a whole paradise better. She may have got us out of Eden, but as a compensation she makes the earth very pleasant.

A quart of doubt to an ounce of truth is the safest brew.

We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets.

People get to like a soul, but a satisfactory hat makes an impression at first sight.

All forced virtue is degrading in it effect.

love comes to man through his senses - to woman through her imagination.

May you live in such a way that your death is just the beginning of your life.

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.

But that I should have ended up in a place like this seems too custom-made a nightmare to be the work of mere ill fortune.

What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional.

I'm surrounded by people who care about me and love me. I have a great job. I have wonderful roommates who take care of me. I have a family who adores me.

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.

The collective income of all these people - the bottom half - is less than three percent of global household income, and so there is a grotesque maldistribution of income and wealth.

A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.