Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

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.

Live!
Live the wonderful life that is in you!
Let nothing be lost upon you.
Be always searching
for new sensations.
Be afraid of nothing.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.