When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.
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.
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.
Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.
We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often 'Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.'
It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
To forgive is not just to be altruistic.
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
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.
Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life
Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.
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.
