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

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

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

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

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.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.