Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.

The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

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

Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

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.

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.