We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
“I am not young enough to know everything.
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
The very essence of romance is uncertainty
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.