To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

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

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

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

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

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

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

Any place I hang my head is home.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

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.

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

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

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

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

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