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

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.

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.

The body is an outstanding source of strength

We'll stop it, even if my body crumbles to bits I'll stop it with my soul!

If one had but a single glance to give the world one should gaze on Istanbul.

I don't need the news. If they have a war, I figure someone will tell me.

Miles from nowhere. Guess I'll take my time.

No one is free who does not lord over himself.

Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in kind.

It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.

When I have to choose between voting for the people or the special interests, I always stick with the special interests. They remember. The people forget.

I didn't know it would be black," she murmured with a little smile. Horror flooded his face. "Oh, Christ!