Time is the best killer.

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.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

Maybe this world is another planet?s hell.

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

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

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

All of us are products of our childhood.

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

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

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.