We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.

History has shown there are no invincible armies.

I am not young enough to know everything.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

The less you know, the more you believe.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.

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

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Time is the best killer.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again