History is the devil's scripture.

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

I can't wait to figure out what is wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be.

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

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

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

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

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

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

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

The less you know, the more you believe.