Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

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

The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

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.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up - that growing is an ever ongoing process.

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.