The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.
Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.
I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.
Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life
Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.
Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
Life should be great rather than long.