We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years.

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.

It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.

The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.

In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.

What do you do there, moon, in the sky? Tell me what you do, silent moon. When evening comes you rise and go contemplating wastelands; then you set.

Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone.

Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do.

When we are able to look beyond appearances and to behold that which we truly are, we recognize that our essence is interwoven with the divine and that we exist as one of its expressions.

Night does not show things, it suggests them. It disturbes and surprises us with its strangeness. It liberates forces within us which are dominated by our reason during the daytime.

He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.

Enemies' promises were made to be broken.

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

True love doesn't have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you.

I want people to know when I'm taking care of them I'll give it all that I've got.

I don't want people to think of me as sexy.