We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often 'Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.'

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

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

Life should be great rather than long.

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

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

Time is the best killer.

To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

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

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

History has shown there are no invincible armies.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

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

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.

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

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