“You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

No one you love is ever truly lost.

Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

Any man’s life, told truly, is a novel.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

Work could cure almost anything.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.

Being against evil doesn’t make you good.

How little we know of what there is to know.

Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, every thing will get better and sun will shine brighter then ever.

The strong grows in solitude where the weak withers away.

Love in this dying world but the simple word “love” itself already died and went away.

The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential.

Peace is not something you wish for; It’s something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.

At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.