Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.

It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Live simply so others may simply live.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

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

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my 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?

Live to the point of tears.

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

My art and profession is to live.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.