The past is the best prophet of the future.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.

I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

There's place and means for every man alive.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

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

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

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.