To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.