Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

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

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

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

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

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

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

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

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

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

The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.