I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

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

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

A life not lived for others is not a life.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

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

Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

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

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.