“Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery.”

Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.

If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.

A strong egoism is a protection.

The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks.

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea,they become powerless when they oppose it.

All giving is asking, and all asking is an asking for love.

If you can’t do it, give up!

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. We become closed – not only to people’s pain – but also their happiness.

Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.

When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.

Talent comes from experience and failure.

Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced.

Illness is a part of every human being’s experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

We all experience pain when we suffer loss and joy when we achieve what we seek.

Where there is no experience the wise man is silent.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.