life

"I can sell you wine and I can sell you flowers, but I can't sell you romance, because that comes from your heart, and it's free."

"Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man."

"In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the pricesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs."

"How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole"

"Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living."

"Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."

"I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness."

"I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do — to feel, discuss feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff…what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like."

"No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create?"

"As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.I wish you all very good lives."

"In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things."

"The whole notion of pain, and how every individual experiences pain, is up for debate. We don't know how another person experiences pain - physical pain or psychic pain. Some of these clinics where assisted suicide or euthanasia is practiced, they call it 'weariness of life.'"

"Money is not equal for all people. A strong personal brand adds more lift and leverage. One dollar from me may buy a soda from a car dealership, but one dollar from Justin Bieber may get him a Ferrari. And they'd pay him to drive away."

"Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain."

"I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than your normal disposition, and I am always the same thing. Perhaps I am the only person in the world, then, who never becomes sad. Perhaps I am lucky."

"Children and dogs are the messengers of God some of us do not deserve them"

"The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars."

"And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit."

"Reading makes you ready for the world. A man who doesn’t read is a man who is easily deceived. You must find that man and make him sign a contract, and you must do it before Satan does. Trust me, the profits are HUGE!"

"I wonder if I'll ever have to decide which is worse, life as we're living or no life at all."