The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

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

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.

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

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

It takes a long time to grow young.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

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

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.

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.