A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

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

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

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

Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

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

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

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

Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

Live your life and forget your age.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough

No one has ever become poor by giving.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

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.

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.

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child