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.

You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.

Couples tended to be of roughly equivalent personal attractiveness, though of course factors such as money often seemed to secure a partner of significantly better looks than oneself.

When we become more self-aware of our needs, we become better-equipped to takecare of ourselves.

I've been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with a highlighter, but I've always loved to read.

Never be bored. Energy lives off of attention. When you are bored you get drained.

It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening.

For a second I thought I might actually be alive," I said, looking at Nick's unshaven face. "Now I know- I've gone to Hell and you're my nursemaid.

I really want be of great value for the team.

We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.

[On her father:] ... in losing him I lost my greatest blessing and comfort, for he was always that to me.

Henry Colbert, the miller, always breakfasted with his wife--beyond that he appeared irregularly at the family table.