It is not the length of life, but the depth.

There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

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

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

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

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed