I'm one of the few persons I ever met who are able to learn from experience.

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.

It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.

It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.

Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.

Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant.

I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.

Why did you look at the sunset?'Philip answered with his mouth full:Because I was happy.

Schools are made for the average. The holes are all round, and whatever shape the pegs are they must wedge in somehow. One hasn't time to bother about anything but the average.

Putting yourself first means you will never be last.

I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.

Eight hours of sleep would be amazing. That would be the best. If I could just figure out that part of my life, it would be great.

I'm glad for the equaled record. However, the final numbers really count.

I've faced worse than a dressmaker who breaths fire.

Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.

The elites - or managers in companies - no longer control the conversation. This is how insurrections start.

I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now.

Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer, we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God, not of the answer.