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.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

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

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

Time is the best killer.

Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

Diamonds are a girls best friend.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Life's a journey, not a destination.

Live to the point of tears.

The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.

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

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.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.