Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
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.
There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.
Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.
Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.