Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

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

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.