Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Life should be great rather than long.

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.

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.

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.

There's place and means for every man alive.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

The less you know, the more you believe.

Live simply so others may simply live.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

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.

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

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

We all owe death a life.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

The way to know life is to love many things.