The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

A life not lived for others is not a life.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Life's a journey, not a destination.

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.

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

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!

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.

My art and profession is to live.

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

Life should be great rather than long.

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?

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.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.