Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.
A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.
The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose
I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.
This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
What goes up must come down.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
Life should be great rather than long.
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
Life must be lived as play.
