Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.
Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Certain signs precede certain events.
Nature is not human-hearted.
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.
There's place and means for every man alive.
The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
It is not the length of life, but the depth.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough
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.
We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.