Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth — look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard, nor read about, nor seen, but, if one will, are to be lived.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.