Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

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

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 desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.

The less you know, the more you believe.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

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.

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

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

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

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.