Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

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.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

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

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

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

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

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

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.