“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.”

“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.”

“Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.”

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

“You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.”

“Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.”

“Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.”

“It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.”

“A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.”