Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

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

The way to know life is to love many things.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

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.

It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

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

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

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

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

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

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

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.