Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in the world. Now that I’m old . . . I know it is.
Who, being loved, is poor?
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
I am not young enough to know everything.
True friends stab you in the front.
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
