Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Novels are longer than life.

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

With renunciation life begins.

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.

There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.

Paris has always seemed ... the only city where you can live and express yourself as you please.

Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men?

A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments.

I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures.

There was a time when people said, 'Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like that.' Now they just say, 'Pay him!'

Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

My sisters said, Why do you make those faces? You make yourself so ugly.

We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces.

Since Social Security faces a large gap between what it promises younger workers and what it can afford to pay them, private savings will likely need to play a larger role in retirement planning for younger workers.

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.

I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.

There is only one woman in the world. One woman, with many faces.

Japan is dealing us a dead hand. For two years we have watched the Japanese drag their feet and we can't let them continue to slam the door in our faces.

My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.

It's very schizophrenic because I like a lot of very straight pop, like Small Faces, Stones, Kinks; and on the other hand, I like a lot of avant garde things.

We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction "If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable."

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

I have always loved to sit in ferry and railroad stations and watch the people, to walk on crowded streets, just walk along among the people, and see their faces, to be among people on street cars and trains and boats.

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.

I think I'm a million different faces.

All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work.

And for any victim of a violent crime, when you actually get to go in and realize and see their faces and know that they can't hurt you any more, there is no feeling like that. It finally frees you from a lot of demons.

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.

New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.