It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

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

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

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

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

A life not lived for others is not a life.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

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