Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

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

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

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

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

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

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