It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!

We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

we have so much to say, and we shall never say it.

Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.

For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.

Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.

Anything you can settle with money is cheap.

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.

Every new situation requires new strategy.

The intellect can only think about or analyze joy, but cannot feel it.

Every birthday celebrates a life because every life is important.

The biggest luxury is a job in which I get to live in New York, travel the world, and work with so many incredible people.

The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.

There are men I could spend eternity with. But not this life.

Man is remembered by his deeds.

I'm a firm believer that when children have a strong conviction about something, it's often because there's some powerful experience from a past life. Something that they didn't get to fulfill.

So many words get lost. They leave the mouthand lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days you can hear their chorus rushing past.

Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.