There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.

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

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

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

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

Live simply so others may simply live.

My art and profession is to live.