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

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

The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.

Live your life and forget your age.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

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

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

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

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

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

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Nature is not human-hearted.

There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.

Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

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.