Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.
There is nothing new in art except talent.
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
Doctors are just the same as lawyers the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.