Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

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

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

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

Life's a journey, not a destination.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

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.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.