All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.

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

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

We all owe death a life.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

My art and profession is to live.

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

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

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.

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

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often 'Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.'

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!