Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.