To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

There is always madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

The beauty of friendship is loyalty.

The longer you drift the more you will learn. What you learn affects the kind of person you end up turning into.

America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.

I'd rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools.

A careful and sympathetic sense of humour can also be a great asset when there is need to get out of difficult situations gracefully.

Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape.

When love ends, the beloved is no longer standing on a pedestal, but in a hole.

Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they.

Whether it was good or bad, that was the day, and you have to let it go.

An independent and free media is essential to ensure democracy.